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NASA’s New Horizons mission team honored the life and contributions of aerospace engineer Lisa Hardaway on Thursday by dedicating the spectrometer she helped to develop – which brought the first color close-up images of Pluto to the world – in her
A University of Colorado Boulder student satellite team has won a free ride to space. NASA announced last week that ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ Earth Escape Explorer (CU-E3) is one of three national winners in the space agency’s Cube Quest Challenge small
The 2017 ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ-MIT-Stanford Women in Aerospace Symposium was hosted by the Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ on May 31 and June 1. Sixteen outstanding women doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in aerospace
The shoebox-size CU Earth Escape Explorer (CU-E3) is being assembled by the University of Colorado, Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Science Graduate Projects Class. CU-E3 is designed for a communications technology demonstration mission, slated to
A SpaceX rocket was slated to launch two University of Colorado Boulder-built payloads to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida on Thursday, including one to look at changes in cardiovascular stem cells in microgravity that
Future unmanned hypersonic aircraft may ultimately owe part of their success to University of Colorado Boulder atmospheric research. A consortium of universities led by the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering
Congratulations to associate professor James Nabity for earning the 2017 Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award from the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The award recognizes faculty and staff advisors who demonstrate exceptional advising
A heads-up for commercial air crews and other frequent fliers: The risk of exposure to radiation particles screaming Earthward from space may increase a bit in the next few years as the activity of our sun decreases, says a ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ professor.
Congratulations to research professor Delores Knipp, who has been selected to give the 2017 CEDAR Prize Lecture. Knipp is receiving the honor for her space weather research “unraveling the physical connection between shock-led interplanetary coronal
It's senior design time! The Aerospace Engineering Student Projects Symposium was April 21, 2017 in the Gallogly Discovery Learning Center.Students gave presentations on their projects, designed to solve real-world engineering problems faced by