2025-26

Three small satellites designed, built and tested at CU Boulder launched to orbit this spring. The AEPEX and CANVAS satellites are each engaged in space weather research. The COSMO satellite is conducting high accuracy measurements of Earth’s magnetic field for global navigation.

A one-of-a-kind plasma tunnel facility on CU Boulder's East Campus allows researchers to study how materials and technologies behave under hypersonic conditions—flight at Mach 5 and faster. The team is also exploring whether powerful magnets could someday help maneuver vehicles traveling at those extreme speeds.

Instruments designed and built by researchers at LASP will be developed for a future NASA Artemis mission. The proposal, called the DUst and plaSma environmenT survEyoR (DUSTER), was selected as part of Artemis's Deployed Instruments Program.