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Roughly one story belowground, in an undisclosed location in Boulder County, close to a dozen engineers hustle up and down a series of utility tunnels—a network of corridors filled with pipes and lit only by sporadic lightbulbs. The students and faculty members have come to this dim and dusty environment...

Up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's (another) University of Colorado Boulder CubeSat! CU Boulder's role as a major force in cube satellites is being highlighted by Bryce Space and Technology, a space research and consulting firm. According to...

Shaylah Mutschler is designing a better forecasting system for space weather by exploiting an unlikely source: space junk. “The government currently uses intensive ground sensor tasking to monitor conditions in orbit. This is costly and takes time away from other work. My aim is to use data we’re already collecting...

The annual memorial event will take place on campus at 9:38 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, to honor the astronauts who perished in the Challenger and Columbia disasters. If you go Who: Open to the public What: Challenger Memorial When: Sunday, Feb. 2, 9:38 a.m. Where: Regent Administrative Center The event...

Congratulations to Kaitlyn Olson for earning a 2020 Brooke Owens Fellowship! The highly competitive program provides paid internships and mentoring to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration. Olson is a CU Boulder senior pursuing a double major in aerospace engineering sciences and applied mathematics, as well as

Diane Davis Gateway Mission Design Integrated Systems Lead at Johnson Space Center Friday, Jan. 31 | 12:30 P.M. | AERO 12O Abstract: The Gateway is NASA’s next human outpost in space, a staging location for missions beyond Earth orbit and a proving ground for deep space technologies. The Gateway will...

Leaders from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research visited CU Boulder last week to learn about new research initiatives happening on campus and meet CU researchers working on Air Force-related projects. Visiting from Arlington, Virginia, were Col. Michelle Ewy , acting director of the Air Force Office of...

Aviation Week has announced four University of Colorado Boulder aerospace students as winners of “Tomorrow’s Technology Leaders: The 20 Twenties.” Released in collaboration with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the annual list recognizes leading engineering students at universities across the USA and around the world. The 2020...

George Born has been announced as a 2020 inductee into the Colorado Space Heroes Hall of Fame. The Space Foundation announced the posthumous induction of Born, who was a professor of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder for three decades and founded the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics...

Greetings from Antarctica! I can’t believe I am living and learning in one of the coolest (literally coldest) places on the planet. I arrived here in December as a University of Colorado Boulder aerospace PhD student and Smead Scholar working under professor Dr. Xinzhao Chu. She has been conducting research in Antarctica for...