Delores Knipp News

Delores Knipp was interviewed for a feature article in the Washington Post. Knipp, a research professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, is an expert on solar wind-geospace coupling and space weather and has written extensively about historic solar storms. The Washington Post article focuses...

What would you do if the power went out? Our lives are increasingly reliant on technology; our work and our social lives often require access to the internet. Lights, televisions, and refrigerators require electricity to run. These devices, and the power grid as a whole, are subject to a major...

Research Professor Delores Knipp is interviewed in a new article in the MIT Technology Review about the recent failure of up to 40 satellites launched by SpaceX. The satellites launched with no problems, but trouble struck the following day. The issue? A geomagnetic storm. Knipp is an expect in space...

Smead AES: An Academic Home for a “Non-conforming” Space Scientist (or Why Staying within the Lines While Coloring May Not be the Productive Approach) Delores Knipp Research Professor Friday, Dec. 4, 12:30 p.m. Zoom Webinar - Registration Required Abstract: Sciences is the Department’s ‘surname.’ In this reappointment seminar I will...

Analysis of a disrupted SOS signal during an early polar expedition showcases the importance of taking space weather into account when exploring new frontiers. Eos, the magazine of the American Geophysical Union, spoke with research professor Delores Knipp about how space weather impacted an early airship expedition to the North...

Delores Knipp Research Professor, Smead Aerospace Friday, Feb. 28 | 12:30 P.M. | AERO 120 Abstract: Space Weather is a relatively new term applied to research and applications of Sun-Geospace interactions. Space weather research, in one form or another, has been an ongoing activity in the CU and Boulder space-ecosystems...

Delores Knipp is earning two honors for her research into space weather. Knipp, a research professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and the Chancellor’s Grand-Challenge Space Weather Technology, Research and Education Center (SWxTREC) at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been awarded the 2019...

By Smead Aerospace Research Professor Delores Knipp and RAL Space Head of Space Weather Michael Hapgood: On November 7, 2019, in response to an International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) mandate, the world’s major space weather centers will start issuing global advisories related to disruptions in: high-frequency radio communications; communications via...

Mines like these, deployed in waters off the coast of Vietnam just 3 months earlier, suddenly detonated without explanation in August 1972. The event was attributed to “magnetic perturbations of solar storms.” Credit: U.S. Navy In 1972, during the waning years of the Vietnam War, U.S. military pilots flying south...

Declassified files are showing researchers the unpredictable nature of the Sun and helping them work towards predicting the next big solar storm. Seeker sat down with Smead Aerospace Research Professor Delores Knipp to find out more. Watch the full story.