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  • Allie Anderson
    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
  • A quadcopter drone flies into an entrance of Edgar mine.
    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
  • Rendering of the CSSWE CubeSat in orbit.
    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
    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
  • A cadet placing a wreath.
    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
  • Kaitlyn Olson
    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
  •       Representatives from 񱦵 meet with leaders of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Col. Michelle Ewy and Col. Jason Mello (center).
    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,
  • Collage of the winners
    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
    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
  • Touchdown after a long and loud flight!
    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...
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