Iain Boyd

Boyd featured in news podcast on hypersonic weapons

Aug. 8, 2022

Professor Iain Boyd was interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for a new podcast on the international race to develop hypersonic weapons. Boyd, a professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, is also the director of the CU Boulder Center for National Security Initiatives ...

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Evaluating the risks of military anti-satellite lasers

July 26, 2022

Iain Boyd is exploring the threats posed by a new ground-based laser facility reportedly being built by Russia to interfere with satellites orbiting overhead. Boyd is the director of the Center for National Security Initiatives at the University of Colorado Boulder and a professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead...

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Boyd discusses hypersonic weapons with Institution of Mechanical Engineers

June 29, 2022

Professor Iain Boyd was interviewed by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in a new article on the extreme challenges faced in developing hypersonic weapons. Boyd, a professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, is also the director of the CU Boulder Center for National Security...

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Boyd talks supersonic airliners with the Washington Post

May 31, 2022

Iain Boyd discusses the potential and pitfalls of new supersonic commercial flights in an Washington Post article. Boyd, a professor of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, is an expert on the science and extreme conditions faced in faster-than-sound travel. Read the article at the Washington Post...

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How hypersonic missiles work and the unique threats they pose – an aerospace engineer explains

April 15, 2022

Iain Boyd discusses the development and use of hypersonic weapons in a new column in The Conversation. Boyd, a professor of aerospace engineering sciences and director of the CU Boulder Center for National Security Initiatives , is a leading national researcher in hypersonic aerothermodynamics. Hypersonic weapons present unique challenges to...

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CU Boulder awarded major Department of Defense research grant for hypersonics

March 30, 2022

The University of Colorado Boulder has received a five-year, $7.5 million grant to advance the science of hypersonic flight. The grant will investigate plasma that forms around sub-orbital vehicles traveling at...

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Boyd discusses hypersonic weapons, tracking with Air Force Magazine

Feb. 17, 2022

Professor Iain Boyd discusses how hypersonic weapons maneuver in a new piece in Air Force Magazine highlighting the dangers posed by weapons that can move at least five times the speed of sound. Boyd, who is also the director of the CU Boulder Center for National Security Initiatives , is...

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Boyd discusses military hypersonics with Hamodia

Jan. 10, 2022

Professor Iain Boyd discusses hypersonic technology in a new article with the Israeli newspaper Hamodia. The piece focuses on recent Chinese hypersonic tests and efforts in the U.S. on hypersonic missiles and countermeasures. Read the full story...

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Boyd discusses Russian missile test with Colorado Public Radio

Nov. 29, 2021

Russia launched a missile and blew up one of its old satellites last week, triggering an alert for the International Space Station and concern that space could become a new battleground. Colorado Public Radio spoke with Iain Boyd, a professor of aerospace engineering sciences and director of the Center for...

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Directed energy weapons shoot painful but non-lethal beams – are similar weapons behind the Havana syndrome?

Sept. 17, 2021

Professor Iain Boyd discusses directed energy weapons and the Havana Syndrome in a new column published in The Conversation: The latest episodes of so-called Havana syndrome, a series of unexplained ailments afflicting U.S. and Canadian diplomats and spies, span the globe. They include two diplomats in Hanoi, Vietnam - which...

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