{"id":605295,"date":"2026-04-25T08:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605295\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:46:11","slug":"nasa-to-launch-sunset-high-students-vibration-and-heat-sensor-rig-into-microgravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605295\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA to launch Sunset High students\u2019 vibration and heat-sensor rig into microgravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEAVERTON, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Eight 9th-grade female students from Sunset High Schoolwill be sending an experiment into space. The students are a part of NASA\u2019s TechRiseStudent Challenge. <\/p>\n<p>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/pomeranian-plucked-from-rocks-near-eagle-creek-reunited-with-owners-clackamas-county-firefighters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pomeranian plucked from rocks near Eagle Creek, reunited with owners<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The students have designed and built a specialized experiment\u201cto test how advanced materials handle the rigors of spaceflight,\u201d theBeaverton School District said. <\/p>\n<p>The experiment is investigating a specific material designedto absorb kinetic energy and vibrations; however, the materials also pose the riskof overheating. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe students\u2019 custom-built rig\u2014featuring a vibrationdevice, heat sensors, and complex circuitry\u2014will be launched by NASA into amicrogravity environment to see how the material performs,\u201d Beaverton Schools said.<\/p>\n<p>NASA will use the data collected by the experiment to helpthem understand how to protect equipment in space. The students at Sunset HighSchool were among a few chosen out of hundreds of entries nationwide. <\/p>\n<p>Two teachers, Dan Neeway and Sofia Hussain, are overseeing thestudents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEAVERTON, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Eight 9th-grade female students from Sunset High Schoolwill be sending an experiment into space.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-605295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}