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The top researchers in the field of hypersonics have wrapped up a week-long conference highlighting the latest developments in the subject. The 2019 Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics Portfolios Review, sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Office of Naval Research, and the Hypersonic Vehicle Simulation Institute brought approximately 100 leading...

Researchers from CU Boulder flew drones into severe storms this spring in one of the largest and most ambitious drone-based investigations of meteorological phenomena ever.

Atmospheric scientists will soon get an unprecedented view of the conditions that trigger some of the United States’ most devastating tornadoes. Last week, a team of researchers set out across the Great Plains with a fleet of drones to monitor supercell thunderstorms. These rotating storms pummel the central United States...

Project TORUS – or Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells – is a partnership between CU Boulder, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (which is leading the work), Texas Tech University, the University of Oklahoma and the National Severe Storms Laboratory. Funding comes from the National Science Foundation and the...

Brian Argrow Chair, Smead Aerospace Wednesday, April 24, 2019 5:00 PM | MATH 100 Pre-Reception at 4:30 PM Download Flyer This summer 2019 the Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (AES) will move into the new Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building on the East Campus. In addition to accommodating our expanding...

CU Boulder researchers will fly drones this fall as part of a massive expedition to the Arctic to study climate at the top of the world. The research is part of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate expedition - MOSAiC for short . During the expedition,...

“Boost-glide,” the method of using rocket pro­pulsion to achieve high speed before an un­powered glide, is an apt metaphor for U.S. investment in hypersonics research and education. Recent interviews with government leaders and experts suggest that the U.S. no longer has the luxury of exploring hyperson­ic flight as an unchallenged...

Brian Argrow is a professor and chair of Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. He was the founding director of the Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles (RECUV) and is a former associate dean for education for the College of Engineering and Applied Science. His...

Brian Argrow, the new chair of Smead Aerospace, talks Mars, drones, integrity and why he always books a window seat. If you could visit any planet in our solar system, which would you pick? Mars, of course. When I see images from the surface, they often remind me of places...

CU Boulder engineers, scientists and students are teaming up with Black Swift Technologies of Boulder to use unmanned aircraft in the coming weeks to measure water moisture at a test irrigation farm in Yuma, Colorado. The testing will take place at the Irrigation Research Foundation (IRF), a research and demonstration...