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Vanessa Aponte (AeroEngr PhD '06) has rubbed shoulders with astronauts, designed equipment to travel into space, and worked with technology so specialized she is not allowed to talk about it. As a Lockheed Martin engineer and CU aerospace PhD
Dear colleagues, alumni, and friends, For the past five years, I have had the honor of serving as chair of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, now newly named in honor of Ann and H.J. Smead. It has been an exciting time, especially over the past year.
The first 20 star-trekking mice to travel to the International Space Station, riding aboard a spacecraft built by Hawthorne-based Space X, have returned to their home lab at UCLA. But the mission isn’t over for the mice, plucked last week from their
NASA’s New Horizons mission team honored the life and contributions of aerospace engineer Lisa Hardaway on Thursday by dedicating the spectrometer she helped to develop – which brought the first color close-up images of Pluto to the world – in her
A ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß student satellite team has won a free ride to space. NASA announced last week that CU ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß’s Earth Escape Explorer (CU-E3) is one of three national winners in the space agency’s Cube Quest Challenge small
The 2017 CU ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß-MIT-Stanford Women in Aerospace Symposium was hosted by the Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at CU ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß on May 31 and June 1. Sixteen outstanding women doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in aerospace
The shoebox-size CU Earth Escape Explorer (CU-E3) is being assembled by the University of Colorado, ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß, Aerospace Engineering Science Graduate Projects Class. CU-E3 is designed for a communications technology demonstration mission, slated to
A SpaceX rocket was slated to launch two ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß-built payloads to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida on Thursday, including one to look at changes in cardiovascular stem cells in microgravity that
Future unmanned hypersonic aircraft may ultimately owe part of their success to ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß atmospheric research. A consortium of universities led by the CU ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering
Congratulations to associate professor James Nabity for earning the 2017 Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award from the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The award recognizes faculty and staff advisors who demonstrate exceptional advising