The Florida Space Institute invites you to attend an Open House at its new offices in the UCF Research Park at the Partnership I Building, Suite 214. The open house is on August 29th from 4pm-6pm. This event will provide you with the opportunity to tour FSI’s new offices, meet FSI faculty and staff, including Josh Cowell, Physics Faculty and the Assistant Director of the Florida Space Institute.<\/p>\n
Speakers include Dr. S. Alan Stern, Interim Director of the Florida Space Institute and Dr. MJ Soileau, Vice President for Research & Commercialization at UCF. Please RSVP to Sreela Mallick at Sreela.Mallick@ucf.edu or 407-823-6176.<\/p>\n
The Florida Space Institute (FSI) supports space research, development, and education activities. In addition, we support the development of Florida\u2019s space economy\u2014civil, defense, and commercial.<\/p>\n
Since 1996, FSI has been an institute of the State University System of Florida. FSI is made up of researchers, educators, and staff from member universities in Florida. FSI research ranges from studying the Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere to the origin of the planets and from the workings of asteroids to propulsion technologies for high-Mach aerospace vehicles.<\/p>\n
FSI is involved in space missions as diverse as high altitude rocket launches, next-gen suborbital flights, the NASA Cassini mission to Saturn, and NASA\u2019s Explorer program. FSI administratively houses the Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC) for NASA, and we operate the Space Research Initiative (SRI) for the State of Florida.<\/p>\n