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- Assistant Professor Allie Anderson's recent TEDx Mile High talk "Torn rotator cuffs & lost fingernails — why we must redesign the spacesuit" is officially available online to view. "The spacesuit is one of the greatest technical engineering
- Roughly one story belowground, in an undisclosed location in Boulder County, close to a dozen engineers hustle up and down a series of utility tunnels—a network of corridors filled with pipes and lit only by sporadic lightbulbs. The
- Up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's (another) CubeSat!
's role as a major force in cube satellites is being highlighted by Bryce Space and Technology, a space research and consulting firm.
According to... - Shaylah Mutschler is designing a better forecasting system for space weather by exploiting an unlikely source: space junk. “The government currently uses intensive ground sensor tasking to monitor conditions in orbit. This is costly and takes time
- The annual memorial event will take place on campus at 9:38 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, to honor the astronauts who perished in the Challenger and Columbia disasters. If you go Who: Open to the public What: Challenger Memorial When: Sunday, Feb
- Congratulations to Kaitlyn Olson for earning a 2020 Brooke Owens Fellowship! The highly competitive program provides paid internships and mentoring to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration. Olson is a senior pursuing a double major in aerospace engineering sciences and applied mathematics, as well as
- Leaders from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research visited last week to learn about new research initiatives happening on campus and meet CU researchers working on Air Force-related projects. Visiting from Arlington, Virginia,
- Aviation Week has announced four aerospace students as winners of “Tomorrow’s Technology Leaders: The 20 Twenties.” Released in collaboration with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the
- George Born has been announced as a 2020 inductee into the Colorado Space Heroes Hall of Fame. The Space Foundation announced the posthumous induction of Born, who was a professor of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado
- Greetings from Antarctica! I can’t believe I am living and learning in one of the coolest (literally coldest) places on the planet. I arrived here in December as a aerospace PhD student and Smead Scholar working under professor Dr. Xinzhao Chu. She has been conducting research in Antarctica for...