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Scott Palo wants to send RALPHIE to space.
RALPHIE the satellite, that is. The U.S. Air Force is providing support to help make it happen...
University of Colorado Boulder Associate Professor Jay McMahon is a participating scientist on NASA's DART, or Double Asteroid Redirect Test mission, which launched last week. Denver's 9News spoke with McMahon about the project, which aims to test
The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder has had a record-breaking year for research funding, bringing in $53 million in awards. The fiscal year 2021 number, which totals $53,101,624, blasts by the previous record of $33.2 million, set just one year ago in 2020...
Crack! Lightning strikes are bright and loud鈥攙iolent enough to shake your bones and light up the sky. Now, a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder suggests that these powerful events may also alter the chemistry of Earth鈥檚
Researchers at CU Boulder will take part in a $25 million effort to study a natural resource that鈥檚 becoming increasingly in demand: the radio frequency spectrum. The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced the new initiative
The University of Colorado Boulder has received a $2 million gift from The Anschutz Foundation to support the university鈥檚 diverse research in aerospace and national defense鈥攆rom tracking and protecting satellites in orbit to improving the
Associate Professor Jay McMahon has been recognized with an Outstanding Faculty Graduate Advisor Award. The honor, bestowed by the College of Engineering and Applied Science, recognizes faculty who demonstrate exceptional advising skills and who
鈥淓xponential commercial utilization of space is simultaneously inspiring and terrifying.鈥 Marcus Holzinger has addressed the U.S. Congress on space situational awareness and space traffic management. It is a subject with increasing importance as
Update: The Hearing was held Thursday. Read Professor Holzinger's testimony. Marcus Holzinger, a Smead Faculty Fellow and associate professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of
The journal Eos is touting Professor Emerita Kristine Larson's win of the 2020 AGU Charles A. Whitten Medal. The American Geophysical Union honor recognized Larson for her outstanding achievement in research on the form and dynamics of the Earth and