On September 1, 2016, a high altitude student platform (HASP) was launched from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico with 12 student payloads. The University of Bridgeport sent a robotic arm with three servo-motors and servo-motor testbed to the fringes of space. The objective was to test the motors at very low temperatures and in vacuum conditions. The payload has heaters and temperature sensors fitted on all its walls that can automatically respond to the thermal conditions to assure that the motors operate
