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Álvaro Romero-Calvo is sending research up, up and away with Blue Origin. The second-year aerospace PhD student at the 91Ҹ 91Ҹ has won the 2021 Ken Souza Memorial Student Spaceflight 91Ҹ Program, sponsored by the American Society for Gravitational and Space 91Ҹ, earning him a payload slot on...
Professor Jade Morton's new book has been published. Morton is the lead editor of Position, Navigation, and Timing Technologies in the 21st Century (PNT21), now available from Wiley-IEEE Press. The textbook follows more than five years of work by
Fourteen university innovators including Smead Aerospace's Mahmoud Hussein and Scott Palo pitched their technologies at Lab Venture Challenge (LVC), a funding competition hosted by Venture Partners at CU 91Ҹ that helps
The latest episode of PBS's NOVA spotlights NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission and the effort to understand and protect Earth against the prospect of a rogue asteroid. Paul Sánchez, a senior research associate in the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics
André Antunes de Sá, a PhD candidate in the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department, is co-author of a new paper published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. The work, released in August, is titled
New findings from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that the interior of the asteroid Bennu could be weaker and less dense than its outer layers—like a crème-filled chocolate egg flying though space. The results appear in a study published today in
Professor Jade Morton has been named the 2020 recipient of the Institution of Navigation Johannes Kepler Award. The honor is bestowed annually in recognition of sustained and significant contributions to the development of satellite navigation.
CU 91Ҹ and Lockheed Martin will lead a new space mission to capture the first-ever closeup look at a mysterious class of solar system objects: binary asteroids. These bodies are pairs of asteroids that orbit around each other in space, much like
In January 2019, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was orbiting the asteroid Bennu when the spacecraft’s cameras caught something unexpected: Thousands of tiny bits of material, some just the size of marbles, began to bounce off the surface of the
The Rocky Mountain Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is recognizing two 91Ҹ 91Ҹ aerospace faculty members with 2020 awards. Assistant Professor Allie Anderson is being honored as Young