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- Russia launched a missile and blew up one of its old satellites last week, triggering an alert for the International Space Station and concern that space could become a new battleground. Colorado Public Radio spoke with Iain Boyd, a professor of
- Outer space is incomprehensibly vast and empty. Yet over the past century, humans have managed to clutter a region known as low Earth orbit (LEO), which stretches from 125 to 1,200 miles above the surface of the planet, with "space debris." This
- CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ’s Alumni Awards are recognizing Vanessa Aponte (PhDAeroEngr’06) as the 2021 recipient of the Kalpana Chawla Award. Vanessa Aponte’s career is out of this world — quite literally. A systems engineer focused on human spaceflight
- Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson shared stories from his life and career during a special webinar with the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. Tyson took part in a discussion hosted by Entrepreneur-in-
- Students at Windsor High School in northern Colorado were given the opportunity to combine rocket science with studying altitudes and velocities. Matt Rhode, Smead Aerospace mechanical design & manufacturing lab manager met with a group of high
- It is one of the coldest and most isolated places on Earth, but for a team of scientists and engineers from CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, it is the ideal location to conduct complex space-atmospheric research: the frozen tundra of Antarctica.
- A CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ team has taken home third place and $500,000 in prize money in an international competition that sends teams of robots deep underground to conduct search-and-rescue operations. The CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ group, made up of engineers from across the
- Xinlin Li, a researcher at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) and a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (AES) at the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical
- A special 1/3 scale GPS IIIF satellite mockup built by Lockheed Martin has been dedicated in the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Aerospace Building. CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and Lockheed Martin officials held a ceremony Friday, Sept. 24 to mark the installation of the satellite, which is...
- Imagine living in a city in the distant (or maybe not-so-distant) future: You need to make an appointment across town, so you step into a pod in an underground tunnel. From there, you’re whizzed at breakneck speeds through a series of twisting and