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This month, the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) is slated to blast off aboard an H-IIA rocket. Since 2014, researchers at CU Â鶹ӰԺ have worked side-by-side with dozens of young scientists and engineers from the United Arab Emirates to help them make this mission a reality.

An update of 50-year-old regulations has kickstarted research into the next generation of rockets, which could be the key to faster, safer exploration of space. Professor Iain Boyd shares on The Conversation.

Bruce Jakosky, principal investigator on NASA’s MAVEN mission and associate director of LASP, is one of 28 representatives from government, industry and academia who have been appointed to serve two-year terms on the users' advisory group.

Aaron Aboaf is leading a team of students on a million-dollar satellite development project to advance space communications technology—all from his childhood bedroom in Aurora, Colorado. The project will be the first CubeSat platform to use CDMA technology (widely used in cell phones).

BioServe Space Technologies at CU Â鶹ӰԺ is designing a space-rated refrigerator for astronauts to store experiments, as well as tasty food treats from home. The first two units are scheduled for delivery to NASA this summer, with a planned launch on the NG-14 resupply mission on September 7.

The chair of the space committee will be Mark Sirangelo, a scholar in residence in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at CU Â鶹ӰԺ and former chief executive of Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems.

Professor Cora Randall and Associate Professor David Brain will lead the LASP centers, each of which will receive $1.3 million over two years. At the end of that time, both projects will also be eligible to apply for additional funding of up to $15 million.

According to Bryce Space and Technology’s just-released 2020 Small Sat Report, CU Â鶹ӰԺ is leading all United States academic institutions and non-profits in the launch of small satellites between 2012 and 2019 and is No. 3 globally.

Ramon Brasser and coauthor Stephen Mojzsis, a professor in CU Â鶹ӰԺ’s Department of Geological Sciences, think they have an answer to the question of why material from the inner and outer solar system didn’t mix from very early on in its history.

Paul Sánchez is being recognized with a rare honor: an asteroid that bears his name. The International Astronomical Union has announced that asteroid 2000 VH57 is now officially named (20882) Paulsánchez.