- Junior helium explorer Pulsar Helium (TSXV:PLSR) signed a partnership with Send My Stuff To Space (SMSTS) to enhance educational opportunities for STEM students
- This unique environment, like conditions on the surface of Mars, offers an ideal setting for students to evaluate the durability of cube satellites and other scientific experiments
- Pulsar Scholars will award $2,500 quarterly to STEM students, which will be utilized to fund their projects through SMSTS.
- Pulsar Helium stock (TSXV:PLSR) last traded at $0.54
Junior helium explorer Pulsar Helium (TSXV:PLSR) signed a partnership with Send My Stuff To Space (SMSTS) to enhance educational opportunities for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This collaboration will integrate Pulsar’s in-house initiative, Pulsar Scholars, with SMSTS’s Academic Space Programme, allowing students to test their scientific projects at high altitudes.
SMSTS specializes in deploying biodegradable natural latex space balloons filled with helium and hydrogen, providing suborbital flights that reach 3,962 metres above sea level. This unique environment, like conditions on the surface of Mars—characterized by dry, cold, hypobaric pressure and high UV exposure—offers an ideal setting for students to evaluate the durability of cube satellites and other scientific experiments.
Partnership highlights
- Quarterly bursaries: Pulsar Scholars will award $2,500 quarterly to STEM students, which will be utilized to fund their projects through SMSTS. This financial support ensures students can conduct experiments in suborbital conditions without the burden of costs.
- Affordable test flights: The partnership guarantees students access to reliable and sustainable test flights at significantly discounted rates, making high-altitude experimentation more accessible.
- Comprehensive support: By covering the full cost of the flights, the bursary program provides students with the necessary resources to advance their projects effectively, fostering innovation and scientific inquiry.
As SMSTS transitions to using primary helium as its preferred lifting gas, this move aligns with best practices in ballooning and enhances sustainability efforts.
Leadership insights
“Our in-house outreach initiative, Pulsar Scholars, has been providing quarterly bursaries of US$2,500 to support higher education students pursuing STEM subjects since 2023,” Marc Farrington, Pulsar’s head of PR and partnerships commented in a media release. “Through our partnership with SMSTS, Pulsar Scholars will support their Academic Space Programme giving students an opportunity to test and validate the durability of their projects in one of the world’s most extreme environments.”
About Send My Stuff to Space
Founded by a dedicated team of educators and scientists, SMSTS has established itself as a leader in educational space balloon flights. With a flawless 100 per cent client payload recovery rate and hundreds of successful flights, SMSTS operates under FAA regulations. The organization has collaborated with notable brands and institutions, including Mastercard and the University of Maine.
About Pulsar Helium
Pulsar Helium is a junior mining company developing a pair of first-mover helium projects in Greenland and the United States.
Pulsar Helium stock (TSXV:PLSR) last traded at $0.54 and has risen 83.05 per cent since the year began.
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