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Seminar: Simultaneous Space Mission Design, Control & Guidance - Mar. 20

March 18, 2024

Vishala Arya Postdoctoral Scholar, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Wednesday, Mar. 20 | 9:30 a.m. | AERO 111 Abstract: Space missions have always been exciting with rapid innovations and developments to advance science and our engineering capability to match our growing aspirations. With the advent of electric propulsion technology arose the...

CU Boulder from the air.

Seminar - Engineering AI Systems and AI for Engineering: Compositionality and Physics in Learning - Apr. 5

March 13, 2024

Cyrus Neary PhD Candidate, Computational Science, Engineering, and Math, UT Austin RESCHEDULED TO: Friday, April 5 | 9:30 a.m. | AERO 111 Abstract: How can we transform artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities into engineering systems? That is, how can we engineer AI systems within budget constraints, certify them...

CU Boulder from the air.

Seminar: Aiming to Explore Deep Space Through Space Robotics and Technology Demonstrations - Mar. 18

March 11, 2024

Paula do Vale Pereira Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology Monday, Mar. 18 | 9:30 a.m. | AERO 111 Abstract: Exploring planets and moons in the outer solar system is key to understanding planetary habitability, life formation, and several other questions of multiple scientific domains. However, as we...

 The USS Portland test-fires a laser weapon. The photo captured infrared light to make the beam visible. Staff Sgt. Donald Holbert/Marine Corps via AP

High-energy laser weapons: How they work, what they are used for

March 7, 2024

Militaries around the world are rapidly developing science fiction-like laser weapons, motivated in part by the growing threat from swarms of drones. Read from CU defense expert Iain Boyd in The Conversation.

U.S. Navy crews recover the Orion Spacecraft for NASA's Artemis I mission from where it landed in the Pacific Ocean in December 2022. No human astronauts were aboard.

Space.com spotlights CU Boulder VR research

March 6, 2024

Torin Clark is developing virtual reality systems to help astronauts cope with disorientation and motion sickness, a long underappreciated reality of space exploration. An associate professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Clark is an expert in human sensorimotor/vestibular function and adaptation. Space.com is highlighting...

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Seminar: Probing Thermal Transport and Mechanical Properties in Nano-Enhanced Composites using Novel Deep Ultraviolet Tools - Mar. 11

March 5, 2024

Joshua Knobloch Senior Research Associate, JILA Monday, Mar. 11 | 9:30 a.m. | AERO 111 Abstract: The discovery, integration, and optimization of nano-enhanced functional materials is of paramount importance for space exploration, energy-efficiency, and next-generation microelectronics. Nanostructures such as nanotubes, graphene, nanodiamonds, and nanoparticles are used to reinforce carbon-fiber composites...

Rendering of OSIRIS-REx at Bennu

Seminar - OSIRIS-REx: To Bennu and Back - Mar. 15

This seminar will recount the two-year proximity operations and remote sensing campaign at Bennu, including the dramatic sample collection event and the events leading to the landing of the sample capsule in Utah...

Graduate student Taylor Lonner dons a virtual reality headset inside the Tilt-Translation Sled, a machine that, in experiments, can mimic the motion of ocean waves.

With space travel comes motion sickness. These engineers want to help

March 1, 2024

In a corner room of the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building at CU Boulder, Torin Clark is about to go for a ride. The associate professor straps himself into what looks like an intimidating dentist’s chair perched on metal scaffolding, which, in turn, rests on a circular base. The whole set...

CU Boulder from the air.

Seminar: Assured Autonomy for Learning-enabled Systems - Mar. 4

March 1, 2024

James Ferlez DARPA Innovation Fellow Monday, Mar. 4 | 9:30 a.m. | AERO 111 Abstract: The last decade has marked a fundamental paradigm shift in autonomous systems design: autonomous systems can now be designed by allowing machines to learn for themselves, most successfully using Neural Network (NN) models. However, autonomous...

Spencer Dansereau

Pollution to production: student startup transforms CO2 into aerospace hardware

Feb. 28, 2024

Spencer Dansereau is building a business that could turn air pollution into a useable product. A University of Colorado Boulder aerospace PhD student, Dansereau aims to take carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and extract the carbon molecules to create 3D printed carbon fiber, which can be used for everything...

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