CU-Boulder in Space

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	Saturn's Rings May Be Old As Solar System, According To New Cassini Observations
	Saturn's F-Ring Video
	CU-Boulder Satellite Shows Regional Warming Variations During Course of Solar Cycle
	Researchers Discover Unseen Belt of Moonlets in Saturn's "A" Ring

 

With a $70 million ultraviolet telescope set for insertion on the Hubble Space Telescope in 2009 to peer at distant galaxies and a $32 million instrument to study the sun launching in 2009 on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, CU-Boulder continues on its path as the premier space university on the planet.

The top-funded university in the world by NASA, CU-Boulder has been extraordinarily active in recent years. Following the launch of an $8.7 million instrument aboard NASA's MESSENGER Mission to Mercury in 2004 -- which passed within 125 miles of the fiery, oddball planet in January 2008 -- and a student-built Dust Counter instrument launched in 2006 on NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, CU-Boulder became the only university in the world to have designed, built and launched instruments to every planet in the solar system.

Since campus researchers began sending experiments and instruments into space in the late 1940s, NASA spacecraft have launched hundreds of CU-Boulder instruments and 17 CU-Boulder alumni on 41 space missions, spanning the entire manned flight program. CU-Boulder ranks in the top five U.S. universities, excluding military academies, in the number of astronaut alums.

From studies of the birth of the universe and the evolution of the solar system to charting the rapid global change occurring on our own planet from space, CU-Boulder  faculty, staff and students receive about $50 million annually for space research.

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• CU-Boulder Spider Becomes Media Hit on Space Station
• CU-Boulder to Launch Butterfly, Spider Experiments on Space Shuttle
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• CU Awarded $32 Million from NASA to Manage Snow and Ice Climate Archive
• CU Signs Agreement with NASA for Experiments on All Remaining Shuttle Missions
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• CU Scientists, Student Launch Sounding Rocket
• Alumnus, Two Payloads Head for Space Station
• NASA Selects Two Space Projects for Further Study
• MESSENGER Spacecraft With CU Instrument to Fly by Mercury
• Saturn's Rings May be Old as Solar System
• Supercomputer Simulation May Help in Search for Missing Matter
• CU Satellite Indicates Regional Warming During Solar Cycle
• International Team Finds Source of Cosmic Rays
• CU Astronaut-Alum Scott Carpenter Presents Scholarship to Student
• New Study Confirms First Belt of Moonlets in Saturn's Rings
• CU Signs $92 Million Contract with NASA, NOAA for Space Weather Package
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Related Links

• CU's Astronaut-Alumni
• Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
• Center for Astrophysical and Space Astronomy
• Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
• Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department
• Colorado Space Grant Consortium
• NASA
• Space Telescope Science Institute

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