A group of Georgia Tech Aerospace Engineering (AE) students have won the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space Student Design competition.  The team included AE students Matthew LeVine, Suyog Benegalrao, Sydney Lewis, Gabriel Morocoima, Danielle Hansen and Stephen Rooks.  Their project, called Space Weather Experimental Platform (SWEPT), focused on gathering information on the strength of radiation and effect on a spacecraft, effects of solar radiation on the magnetotail region and the electron temperature, velocity and density in this region. 

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The Space Student Design competition is held every year and students are given real world problems to work on.  The AIAA is the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession.  With more than 35,000 individual members worldwide and 90 corporate members, AIAA brings together industry, academia, and government to advance engineering and science in aviation, space, and defense.