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Iain Boyd discusses the development and use of hypersonic weapons in a new column in The Conversation. Boyd, a professor of aerospace engineering sciences and director of the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä Center for National Security Initiatives, is a leading national
The National Science Foundation has awarded five prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships to ²ÊÃñ±¦µä Smeed Aerospace graduate students. This top award recognize and supports outstanding graduate students
²ÊÃñ±¦µä senior design teams have earned high marks at the 2022 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region V Student Paper competition. Senior design teams from the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace
What would you do if the power went out? Our lives are increasingly reliant on technology; our work and our social lives often require access to the internet. Lights, televisions, and refrigerators require electricity to run. These devices, and the
Like many young people across America at the time, Brian Argrow was mesmerized by images beamed back to Earth of American astronauts engaged in the Space Race. He was just a little too young for Mercury but was certainly enraptured by the Gemini
Professor Iain Boyd discusses how hypersonic weapons maneuver in a new piece in Air Force Magazine highlighting the dangers posed by weapons that can move at least five times the speed of sound. Boyd, who is also the director of the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä
From 2017 to 2020, students from five different countries traveled to the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä to engage in an ambitious undertaking: to design and build a miniature satellite. Watch the
Research Professor Delores Knipp is interviewed in a new article in the MIT Technology Review about the recent failure of up to 40 satellites launched by SpaceX. The satellites launched with no problems, but trouble struck the following day. The
²ÊÃñ±¦µä Smead Aerospace Entrepreneur-in-Residence Mark Sirangelo has been elected a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). AIAA confers the distinction of Fellow in recognition of notable and
Alessandro Verniani has earned a 2022 Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship. An aerospace master's student, Verniani will receive a paid internships and executive mentorship through...