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Space plasma physicist David Malaspina is part of a team of CU Â鶹ӰԺ scientists who contributed to a signal processing electronics board that is integral to the FIELDS experiment, one of four suites of instruments onboard NASA's Parker Solar Probe.

The International Space Station has a problem with fungus and mold. BioServe Space Technologies at CU Â鶹ӰԺ has been awarded a $750,000 grant by NASA to increase our understanding of the organisms and investigate ways to stop them.

Iain Boyd has also been named National Security Faculty Director for the Research & Innovation Office. In this capacity, he will be building new research partnerships between campus and the defense community.

Occupying roughly 175,000 square feet on East Campus, the building will be the new home for faculty and students seeking to expand humanity’s presence in space—and explore our home planet, too.

Luis Zea and co-investigator Jesse Colangelo have earned a seed grant from CU Â鶹ӰԺ's Research & Innovation Office to study the possibilities of mining with bacteria ("biomining") in space.

Inspired by the Apollo moon landings, the Great Lunar Expedition for Everyone (GLEE) will send 500 spacecraft small enough to fit in the palm of your hand to the moon by 2023.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of this landmark event, CU Â鶹ӰԺ is highlighting the stories of scientists and engineers from across the university who contributed to the first five decades of human space exploration—and who are paving the way for future journeys to the moon and beyond.

The IOD-1 GEMS satellite is the first in a planned fleet of Earth-orbiters that will one day record weather data at every point on the globe every 15 minutes. The project is a partnership between CU Â鶹ӰԺ and Colorado-based Orbital Micro Systems (OMS).

The spacecraft has been nudged into a new, closer-in orbit around Mars. That circuit will allow MAVEN to split its time between continuing its scientific research and serving as a communications relay for NASA’s current and future Mars rovers.

When a distinguished group of Naval personnel casually dropped into this week’s AeroSpace Ventures (ASV) Research Blitz, it gave an unexpected boost to an event already packed with aerospace trailblazers from government, industry and academia.