WEBVTT 00:05.289 --> 00:07.178 I'm Jesse Olson . I'm the program 00:07.178 --> 00:08.956 manager for the University NANO 00:08.956 --> 00:11.178 satellite program here at the Air Force 00:11.178 --> 00:12.845 Research Lab , Space Vehicles 00:12.845 --> 00:14.900 Directorate . So UN P in partnership 00:14.900 --> 00:17.409 with NASA Cubes that launch initiative 00:17.420 --> 00:19.360 and some other NASA programs are 00:19.370 --> 00:21.670 starting a new what we call our mission 00:21.680 --> 00:23.847 concept program . And this is going to 00:23.847 --> 00:26.209 be a more entry level program that 00:26.219 --> 00:28.889 helps university teams get through the 00:28.899 --> 00:31.066 learning curve . They're creating full 00:31.066 --> 00:33.590 small satellite . So UN P has been 00:33.599 --> 00:36.490 around for over 20 years since 1999 00:36.909 --> 00:39.659 and we run normally what we call NANO 00:39.740 --> 00:41.684 satellite program . What we see is 00:41.684 --> 00:43.770 teams apply every year and we get 00:43.779 --> 00:46.970 generally 20 to 25 proposals and we 00:46.979 --> 00:49.189 select 10 when we run these cycles 00:49.200 --> 00:51.311 every few years . And what we find is 00:51.311 --> 00:53.478 there's a lot of teams that would love 00:53.478 --> 00:55.311 to break into the field of small 00:55.311 --> 00:57.422 satellites all across the country and 00:57.422 --> 00:57.299 the world . If you don't , if you've 00:57.310 --> 00:59.143 never done it before , it's very 00:59.143 --> 01:01.088 difficult to write a proposal that 01:01.088 --> 01:03.199 demonstrates understanding of it when 01:03.199 --> 01:05.477 you don't have that experience with it . 01:05.477 --> 01:07.754 And so I saw this flyer and I was like , 01:07.754 --> 01:10.088 this sounds like an amazing opportunity . 01:10.088 --> 01:12.254 I never really thought about aerospace 01:12.254 --> 01:14.421 as a career or anything like that . So 01:14.421 --> 01:13.809 I saw it and I was like , I'll give 01:13.819 --> 01:15.986 this a shot . I wasn't fully expecting 01:15.986 --> 01:17.819 to be accepted or anything . But 01:17.819 --> 01:19.597 luckily I was able to gain this 01:19.597 --> 01:21.430 opportunity and it's been really 01:21.430 --> 01:24.160 amazing so far . Uh I thought it looked 01:24.169 --> 01:26.391 like a very interesting opportunity and 01:26.391 --> 01:28.502 I was very excited that the professor 01:28.502 --> 01:30.502 had thought of me for it . And um I 01:30.502 --> 01:32.725 haven't really had an opportunity to do 01:32.725 --> 01:34.947 outside of the classroom work . So this 01:34.947 --> 01:36.780 was one of my first times to get 01:36.780 --> 01:36.540 outside of the classroom experience 01:36.550 --> 01:38.606 with engineering . This week was the 01:38.606 --> 01:40.717 kickoff where we just kind of welcome 01:40.717 --> 01:42.828 and introduce the . And a lot of this 01:42.828 --> 01:44.772 week was a crash course in systems 01:44.772 --> 01:46.994 engineering , throwing the students off 01:46.994 --> 01:46.370 the deep end into the world of small 01:46.379 --> 01:49.419 satellites . And in Albuquerque , I'm 01:49.430 --> 01:51.208 looking forward to just working 01:51.208 --> 01:53.374 alongside professionals and getting to 01:53.374 --> 01:55.541 bounce ideas off them and um hopefully 01:55.541 --> 01:57.900 gain quite a bit of knowledge . And 01:57.910 --> 02:00.132 then at the end of the summer , uh they 02:00.132 --> 02:02.299 will present their work back to us for 02:02.299 --> 02:04.077 our leadership uh who are great 02:04.077 --> 02:06.021 supporters of UN P . And and we're 02:06.021 --> 02:08.077 always excited to see the students , 02:08.077 --> 02:07.160 they're going to present their work . 02:07.169 --> 02:08.970 It it will likely be relatively 02:08.979 --> 02:11.146 immature missions still . This is only 02:11.146 --> 02:13.368 a three month process . And for student 02:13.368 --> 02:15.368 teams , it can easily take multiple 02:15.368 --> 02:17.423 years to , to build a full satellite 02:17.423 --> 02:19.423 but they will have understood their 02:19.423 --> 02:21.646 mission . They will have a concept that 02:21.646 --> 02:23.757 they've checked and done the analysis 02:23.757 --> 02:25.755 to ensure that the power and the 02:25.764 --> 02:28.115 communications and the data and all the 02:28.125 --> 02:30.884 different subsystems will work together 02:30.895 --> 02:33.062 and will function as a whole satellite 02:33.062 --> 02:35.117 and will fit into a cube set and all 02:35.117 --> 02:37.399 the critical things to writing a good 02:37.410 --> 02:40.139 proposal . And then going on to do the 02:40.149 --> 02:41.816 detailed design and develop a 02:41.816 --> 02:43.927 successful mission . We have a number 02:43.927 --> 02:45.982 of STEM programs throughout a fr but 02:45.982 --> 02:47.927 this one is huge success , I think 02:47.927 --> 02:49.927 because of how many universities it 02:49.927 --> 02:52.149 touches the direct applicability to our 02:52.160 --> 02:54.382 mission to the Space Force mission , as 02:54.382 --> 02:56.438 well as the adjunct applicability to 02:56.438 --> 02:58.750 NASA to industry that we work with . 02:58.759 --> 03:00.703 Now , this mission concept program 03:00.703 --> 03:02.703 that's been kicked off this year is 03:02.703 --> 03:04.975 intended to really extend the invite 03:04.985 --> 03:07.166 out to more and more universities and 03:07.175 --> 03:09.466 get them interested and indoctrinated 03:09.475 --> 03:12.156 and excited about and throwing their 03:12.166 --> 03:14.110 hat in the ring more or less for a 03:14.285 --> 03:17.055 future UN P mission and concept 03:17.065 --> 03:19.121 selection programs . And that way we 03:19.121 --> 03:21.176 can get more and more variety , more 03:21.176 --> 03:22.843 and more diversity across the 03:22.843 --> 03:24.787 universities are in a talent , big 03:24.787 --> 03:27.065 talent competition with everybody else , 03:27.065 --> 03:29.121 not only industry , other government 03:29.121 --> 03:31.287 agencies , but really with the rest of 03:31.287 --> 03:33.232 the world , the more we can excite 03:33.232 --> 03:35.287 students and get them interested and 03:35.287 --> 03:37.454 excited and involved in a program like 03:37.454 --> 03:39.676 this and vectored towards a future like 03:39.676 --> 03:41.787 this , whether it be directly with us 03:41.787 --> 03:43.954 in the government or like I say , with 03:43.954 --> 03:46.176 industry the better off we're all going 03:46.176 --> 03:45.292 to be .