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The National Science Foundation is highlighting the SWARM-EX CubeSats. The three cube satellite project, formally titled Space Weather Atmospheric Reconfigurable...
Personnel from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Human Effectiveness Directorate (RH) at Wright-Patterson Airforce Base, Dayton, Ohio visited Smead Aerospace...
An instrument aboard the CIRBE CubeSat is using advanced detection techniques and leveraging an orbit with specific characteristics to increase our understanding of the Van Allen beltsDesigned and built by Smead Aerospace and the
Marcus Holzinger spoke to PBS News Hour about the growing problem of derelict satellites and other debris orbiting our planet: space junk."So these are defunct satellites, rocket bodies that have been expended and left up in orbit
Dan Scheeres has been named a NASA participating scientist on the European Space Agency’s Hera mission.Scheeres, a distinguished professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of
Sean Peters is leading a major multi-institutional initiative to develop power efficient passive radar systems that could peek under the surface of Mars.Peters has earned a $2.45 million, three-year NASA grant to create a drone-
A joint proposal of the Â鶹ӰԺ and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland has earned a $2 million award for a NASA mission concept study. The team is one of three concept teams chosen by NASA competing to...
Docking with a satellite orbiting Earth is delicate business, with one wrong move spelling disaster. A team of industry and Â鶹ӰԺ researchers is trying to make it easier. The work is part of two major business-university grant partnerships that...
Min Han and Arthur Nozik, both in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Kristine Larson in the College of Engineering and Applied Science have been named members of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The academy, founded in
Â鶹ӰԺ researchers are working to keep America’s armed forces safe in space with a new research grant. Casey Heidrich is leading an Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant to develop a...