Convergence center

Stratolaunch Creates Advanced Program Office at Discovery Park District and Collaborates with Purdue University on Hypersonic Design and Test

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Monday, January 23, 2023

Stratolaunch will establish the Stratolaunch Advanced Programs Office at the Convergence Center in Purdue's Discovery Park District in West Lafayette, Indiana to ensure the goals of their collaboration will be rapidly achieved.

Key Points: 
  • Stratolaunch will establish the Stratolaunch Advanced Programs Office at the Convergence Center in Purdue's Discovery Park District in West Lafayette, Indiana to ensure the goals of their collaboration will be rapidly achieved.
  • The office will be led by an experienced advanced design director with support staff that will offer opportunities for student internships.
  • Through their collaboration Stratolaunch and Purdue will leverage the university's world class multi-disciplinary hypersonic design methods, ground test facilities, faculty, staff, and students to anchor ground simulations.
  • "Stratolaunch' s office at Discovery Park District further strengthens Purdue as an epicenter of hypersonic research and testing in the country."

The exquisite planning of the live-work-play Discovery Park District at Purdue community

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Thursday, June 9, 2022

Developing the Discovery Park District at Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana, has required vision and discipline from the start.

Key Points: 
  • Developing the Discovery Park District at Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana, has required vision and discipline from the start.
  • The Discovery Park District is a 400-acre, mixed-use development adjacent to Purdue University's West Lafayette, Indiana, campus.
  • Rich Michal is senior vice president of capital projects and facilities at Purdue Research Foundation , a private, nonprofit foundation that manages the Discovery Park District.
  • They established a growing tax base that supports Purdue Research Foundation's commitment to the Discovery Park District project and Purdue."