Daniel Scheeres News
Dan Scheeres has been named a NASA participating scientist on the European Space Agency’s Hera mission.Scheeres, a distinguished professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of
Alex Meyer is an astrodynamics expert, engineer, PhD student, and now, a part of the night sky. The International Astronomical Union has officially named an asteroid after him. Asteroid 2000 ND17 is now...
Space News is highlighting a potential new mission for the mothballed Janus spacecrafts. Dan Scheeres, a distinguished professor of aerospace at the University of Colorado Boulder, was principal investigator on the Janus mission. Designed and built
The space economy is booming, and the University of Colorado Boulder is at the forefront of a major federal funding initiative aimed at expanding...
Dan Scheeres was interviewed by SpaceNews.com on progress and setbacks with the Janus asteroid probe mission. Scheeres, a distinguished professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, is the the principal
A team of University of Colorado Boulder researchers is embarking on a major research project that will advance our understanding of orbital mechanics and monitoring, artificial intelligence, and hypersonics. Led by Marcus Holzinger, an...
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
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· 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 spacecraftÌýwas 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
Researchers at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· have gotten front-row seats to one of theÌýclosest encounters with an asteroid in history. On Dec. 4, 2018, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, ResourceÌýIdentification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx)