Will's CHIPS Web Page

This is Will Marchant's home page in the CHIPS system. Feel free to go to either Will's personal home page or to the CHIPS project web pages from here. Thanks!

The CHIPS launched on January 12th at 16:45 Pacific time.

Heavens Above has information about CHIPS and can show you CHIPS's current location.

Here is the GSFC CHIPS page.

Kevin Forsyth has a nice online history of the Delta launcher.

Boeing maintains the Delta II Launch Vehicle Family home page and has an online CHIPSat launch briefing kit.

Education Outreach

I continue to mentor local Civil Air Patrol and High School teams competing in the Team America Rocketry Challenge.

I was a mentor for the George Mason University Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle project as part of my wife's Cyber-Defense class.

I was a mentor for the SpaceWiFi Senior Design Project at George Mason University. The team demonstrated a secure tactical digital data relay network with a mobile repeater node that can be positioned at the area needing the data coverage. The platform could be an aircraft, rocket, building, or hilltop. I've built a high power model rocket that is used for demonstration purposes. The payload has also flown on a fixed and a rotary wing UAV.

Past Conferences

• Sally Ride Science Festival at George Mason University on Saturday April 17, 2004.
• AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites 2003- Final Paper (Adobe Acrobat), Presentation (MS-PowerPoint)
• Third NASA Space Internet Workshop- presentations are at http://scp.grc.nasa.gov/siw/presentations.html.
• 2002 SPIE: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation.
• Second Space Internet Workshop: Final presentation.
• IEEE Aerospace Conference 2002: Abstract, Final Paper, Ellen's presentation.
• AIAA/USU Small Satellite 2001: CHIPS Status paper (Adobe-Acrobat) as published in the proceedings.
• AIAA/USU Small Satellite 2000: CHIPS Status paper (Adobe-Acrobat). CHIPS Status presentation (Adobe-Acrobat).