Jeff Zehnder

  • MAXWELL flatsat in the clean room.
    Aaron Aboaf is leading a team of students on a million-dollar satellite development project to advance space communications technology — all from his childhood bedroom in Aurora, Colorado.

    Working entirely via Zoom, remote desktop connections, and...
  • Two FRIDGE units
    Astronaut ice cream, the crunchy, freeze-dried, pale imitation of the real thing may have met its match – the International Space Station is getting a real freezer.

    BioServe Space Technologies at the University of Colorado Boulder is designing and building a space-rated refrigerator for astronauts to store experiments and, more importantly, tasty...
  • Team EMU
    University of Colorado Boulder aerospace students have earned high honors in the 2020 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region V Student Paper competition. Senior design teams from the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace
  • Addison Woodard
    Aerospace junior and Colorado native Addison Woodard is Johnson Space Center-bound.

    The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences undergraduate has been selected as one of just 25 students nationwide for a 2020 NASA Pathways internship at JSC in Houston, Texas.

    “This is a program I've...
  • NASA SUITS logo.
    University of Colorado Boulder students are designing next-generation spacesuit technology. The CU Technology for Extreme Environments (CUTEE) Club is competing in the NASA SUITS Challenge to design and create an augmented reality system – an interactive, heads-up display – that could present live electronic information to astronauts inside their...
  • Rendering of the CSSWE CubeSat in orbit.
    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
    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
  • Collage of the winners
    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
  • Joe Tanner in space.
    Astronauts moving in low gravity is one of the most exciting-looking things about space travel. It can also be very painful. Injuries, abrasions, lacerations, and fingernail delamination are common among astronauts, all merely the result of trying to maneuver in the bulky and awkward space suits they must...
  • Representative illustration of artifical intelligence.
    University of Colorado Boulder researchers are developing artificial intelligence systems so computers can recognize and explain their own limitations to users.

    It takes on an important issue people face with each other every day.

    “We all have different competencies and we know our own limitations. If I'm asked to...
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