Welcome to the CU-Boulder
Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Located in the beautiful city of Boulder, the University of Colorado's Aerospace Engineering Sciences department is home to 33 tenure track, research, and instructional faculty, over 150 graduate students and 400 undergraduates. Our vibrant community of engineers and scientists tackle challenges in aerospace technology and science, focusing on Astrodynamics & Satellite Navigation Systems, Vehicle Systems, BioAstronautics, Structures & Material Systems, and Remote Sensing, Earth & Space Sciences.
CU-Boulder's Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences is nationally known for teaching and research that address both challenges and opportunities facing the aerospace profession. Students work extensively on challenging, hands-on experiments in the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and design projects alongside expert faculty in the department's world-class research centers. CU aerospace alumni are working at top companies and research labs, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Johnson Space Center, The Boeing Company, and Lockheed Martin.
April 2008: "According to new research, the next footsteps on the lunar surface could be beamed back to Earth via the moon's very own network of communication satellites. The setup could double as a GPS for moonwalkers (space.com)" A relay satellite is needed to contact astronauts on the far side of the moon, which could be placed in a halo orbit at the L2 Lagrange point. "Research by Jeff Parker at the University of Colorado has found that it takes less fuel for a satellite to enter a L2 halo orbit than it takes to get a satellite from Earth into geostationary orbit." A network of "halo orbiting satellites would give future moon walkers a degree of independence and they need not rely on mission control to tell them their exact whereabouts."
April 2008: Students from Aerospace Engineering Sciences at UCB won First and Second place in the team competition at the AIAA Region V Student Paper Conference (see In the News for details).
April 2008: CU's Design-Build-Fly team took 5th place at the Design-Build-Fly contest in Wichita, Kansas with a report score of 94.5 against 40 competitors. Last year Aerospace Engineering Sciences from UCB took 7th place.
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