BLAST lab

After a second successful flight, the composite origami team is happy to be back in NC. Huge thanks to @ZEROGResearch and @NASAArmstrong for this amazing opportunity!

A sneak peek from our wednesday flight - can’t wait to see the @ZEROGResearch photos!

☑️ successful first flight ☑️ preliminary data looks great ☑️ excited to fly again on Friday

The test rig is loaded and ready to fly with @ZEROGResearch today!

Why is the Composite Origami team flying in microgravity? We want to improve the techniques for fabrication, storage, deployment, and tracking of composite origami structures used in outer space.

Excited to fly in style ✈️ @ZEROGResearch @NASAArmstrong

This week the Composite Origami team will be taking over the BLAST Lab Twitter to talk about our trip to fly with @ZEROGResearch. Stay tuned for pictures + updates!

Congratulations to Andrew Rocco for being selected to receive a @NSFGRFP fellowship! mae.ncsu.edu/blog/2020/04/2…

#happynewyear2020 from everyone in the BLAST Lab and the Precision Engineering Consortium.

Here was the #golfball stuck to the screw afterwards

This team survive the hail and then decide to go after the @MarkRober and @smartereveryday #golfball challenge. @ncstatemae @NCStateEngr

Very Innovative use of #seatbelt for stopping hail. @ncstatemae @NCStateEngr

Who knew #ducttape was capable of stopping 300 mph hail. Thanks for the creative idea from @ncstatemae students. @NCStateEngr #wolfpack

@ncstatemae students did an excellent job design structures to survive 300 mph hail. It's amazing to see their innovative and creative solutions. @ncstatemae #wolfpack #Engineering

@NCStateEngr students in @ncstatemae are going to see if they can design projects to withstand 300 mph Hail tomorrow. Here was a test shot from today... #wolfpack

Thanks @NASAArmstrong for this amazing opportunity. We had a blast on the @ZEROGResearch flight doing this work.

Wrapping up two weeks of @ZEROGResearch, we remain truly inspired by the numerous teams of #scientists, #engineeers, #inventors and #creators that performed microgravity #research on board G-FORCE ONE. #FlightSuitFriday has never looked so good!

Looking forward to another set of flights with @ZEROGResearch. This time we will be testing some of the Composite Origami that we have developed. Thanks to @NASAArmstrong for the opportunity. @NCStateEngr @ncstatemae #Wolfpack

So this happened today...@GoZeroG Flight 504 #research #microgravity @NASA_Technology @carthagecollege @PurdueAeroAstro @uflmae @NASAArmstrong @BLAST_lab @uiowa @SierraNevCorp

Awesome day flying and doing #research #science with @ZEROGResearch . Thanks again to @NASAArmstrong for the opportunity. @NCStateEngr @ncstatemae #Wolfpack