Space to the Classroom & the Classroom to Space
Voyager’s DreamUp program provides space-based educational programs to learners and educators. DreamUp is uniquely positioned to engage students globally with the most cutting-edge space research and developments, and inspire them through scientific discoveries in space. DreamUp has brought 500+ student research payloads worldwide to the International Space Station.
DreamUp endeavors to ensure that all student researchers can become the pioneers of space science, by providing the most comprehensive educational experience possible, supporting their scientific research and innovation efforts.
DreamCoder introduces students to the basics of computer engineering with a truly out-of-this world lab. No experience is necessary to begin designing and testing experiments as soon as your hardware kit arrives. When the code is ready, we’ll send it to our identical equipment onboard the International Space Station.
DreamCoder lessons tackle real-world problems with Python3 concepts. The Launchpad is your mission control, where you write and test code. The curriculum guides students through the engineering design process from start to finish, building skills in project management, software development, data science, and communications.
In the box, you get our SAGAN SpaceLab board, which includes a Raspberry Pi mini computer and 12 different sensors including temperature, time, camera, luminosity, ultraviolet, magnetism, barometric, and infrared.
We’ve created cost-effective kits to bring space-based research to your home, classroom, or afterschool program. Each DreamKit comes with the tools and equipment to conduct a space-based STEM experiment, a detailed scientific workbook, and access to an online portal to compare results on Earth with the results of the same experiments on the International Space Station.
Space is open to student researchers. Whether you want to conduct research or fly a small satellite, we will guide you through the spaceflight process. During the spaceflight process, we provide expert guidance during project conceptualization along with technical and engineering support, ranging from payload design to safety, launch booking, on-orbit operations, and more. At the end, we’ll be sure you know where to go to watch your research launch to space in person!
Experienced in managing experiment design competitions with organizations ranging from national space agencies to local nonprofits, DreamUp will help you launch a competition and inspire a generation. Beginning with a call for proposals through the post-flight analysis, DreamUp will work alongside you to engage an entire community in a space mission.
In collaboration with the Saudi Space Agency, DreamUp provided three custom experiments to be conducted in microgravity by the two Saudi astronauts who flew on the Ax-2 private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. During a live event with the Saudi crew, nearly 12,000 students at dozens of sites across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia followed along with their own ground-based DreamKits to gather and compare their own data. Select students also participated in a live event with the Saudi crew where the astronauts answered the students’ questions.
A partnership between the ISS National Lab and Marvel Entertainment provided students ages 13-18 with the opportunity to propose experiments to be conducted onboard the International Space Station. DreamUp partner with “Team Rocket” to design and build an experiment that analyzed the effectiveness of dental glue activated by UV light in microgravity. Dental problems can be detrimental to an astronaut’s mission. Soldering in microgravity results in weaker bonds due to air bubbles, and this team wanted to see if UV could change that.
The “Tests in Orbit” program was a collaboration between the United Arab Emirates Space Agency (UAESA), Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT), DreamUp, and Voyager. Through Tests in Orbit, three United Arab Emirates (UAE) university teams sent experiments to the International Space Station. Tests in Orbit was the result of years of collaboration and engagement, ensuring that a nation of Emirati learners is engaged in and inspired by native microgravity research. The two winning teams of ‘Tests in Orbit’ were New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and Khalifa University, selected from
HE Dr. Eng. Mohammed Nasser Al Ahbabi, Director General of the UAE Space Agency, said: “Competitions like ‘Tests in Orbit’ play a key role in inspiring the next generation of space pioneers. These types of activities also enhance our national capabilities by encouraging the peaceful application of space science and research, contributing to the growth and development of the UAE’s space sector.”
We managed a nation-wide competition, in partnership with the German Space Agency – DLR, for German universities to launch experiments to the Space Station. Three student teams were selected, and the winning experiments launched with German Astronaut Alexander Gerst, and he personally operated the research. After being selected from more than two-dozen initial applications, eight university teams from all over Germany qualified for the final selection and participated in a two-day selection workshop at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Bonn. Students presented their experiment proposals and took questions from an expert board of evaluators.