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This month, Kacie Davis got a rare treat for a fan of all things outer space. The 2020 ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· alumna was one of the first people on Earth to watch as new data streamed from an object called SMC X-1—a type of pulsar, or the collapsed
Hisham Ali joined Smead Aerospace full time as a new assistant professor in January 2022. Prior appointments include being a member of technical staff at the Aerospace Corporation in the Astrodynamics Department, Colorado Springs and a
Professor Jeff Thayer is part of a major new NASA science mission to better understand our sun’s influence on generating space weather. Thayer is one of three interdisciplinary scientists chosen by NASA for the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC)
Professor Iain Boyd discusses hypersonic technology in a new article with the Israeli newspaper Hamodia. The piece focuses on recent Chinese hypersonic tests and efforts in the U.S. on hypersonic missiles and countermeasures. Read the full story...
Dr. Mark T. Esper, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, shared insights from his life and career in a special webinar with the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. Esper took part in a
The Engineering Graduation Ceremony celebrates the imminent graduation of College of Engineering and Applied Science bachelor's students, master's students, doctoral students and Computer Science bachelor of arts students. Graduates will be
Russia launched a missile and blew up one of its old satellites last week, triggering an alert for the International Space Station and concern that space could become a new battleground. Colorado Public Radio spoke with Iain Boyd, a professor of
Outer space is incomprehensibly vast and empty. Yet over the past century, humans have managed to clutter a region known as low Earth orbit (LEO), which stretches from 125 to 1,200 miles above the surface of the planet, with "space debris." This
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Ʒ’s Alumni Awards are recognizing Vanessa Aponte (PhDAeroEngr’06) as the 2021 recipient of the Kalpana Chawla Award. Vanessa Aponte’s career is out of this world — quite literally. A systems engineer focused on human spaceflight
Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson shared stories from his life and career during a special webinar with the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. Tyson took part in a discussion hosted by Entrepreneur-in-