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- A ²ÊÃñ±¦µä-built instrument that will provide unprecedented imaging of the Earth’s upper atmosphere has been successfully installed on the commercial satellite that will carry it into geostationary orbit some 22,000 miles above the Earth.
- ²ÊÃñ±¦µä and Harris Corporation have announced a new master research agreement to further mutual interests in analytical instrumentation, space antennas, space payloads and electronics and more.
- Toting an ultraviolet instrument designed and built by LASP, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made the first of 22 dives between the rings of Saturn and the gaseous planet today, the beginning of the end for one of NASA’s most successful missions ever.
- As part of an effort to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and collaborative output of partnerships between ²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s nationally-ranked aerospace programs and small companies in Colorado serving the aerospace and defense sectors, the
- Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation Terri Fiez announced that Abby Benson has taken a new role as assistant vice chancellor for Research & Innovation, Industry Collaboration and AeroSpace Ventures.
- According to new results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, led by ²ÊÃñ±¦µä, solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars into a frigid desert world.
- A ²ÊÃñ±¦µä team has entered into a five-year, $4.5-million cooperative agreement with NASA to become part of a virtual institute to pursue the construction of astronomical observatories on the moon.
- Please join us for a reception at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs on Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Come meet our leaders and get the latest news on ²ÊÃñ±¦µä's aerospace-related initiatives.
- Alumni, industry execs and other space buffs celebrated the state’s growing prominence in aerospace—from probing the Bennu asteroid to an array of industry partnerships—at the second annual ²ÊÃñ±¦µä Aerospace Summit earlier this week.The summit,
- Several students are playing significant roles in the upcoming launch of a SpaceX rocket carrying two ²ÊÃñ±¦µä payloads – one designed to help researchers better understand and perhaps outsmart dangerous infections like MRSA, another to help increase the proliferation of stem cells in space, a potential boon for biomedical therapy on Earth.