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A heads-up for commercial air crews and other frequent fliers: The risk of exposure to radiation particles screaming Earthward from space may increase a bit in the next few years as the activity of our sun decreases, says a CU ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß professor.
Congratulations to research professor Delores Knipp, who has been selected to give the 2017 CEDAR Prize Lecture. Knipp is receiving the honor for her space weather research “unraveling the physical connection between shock-led interplanetary coronal
It's senior design time! The Aerospace Engineering Student Projects Symposium was April 21, 2017 in the Gallogly Discovery Learning Center.Students gave presentations on their projects, designed to solve real-world engineering problems faced by
Members of the Challenger team with the microsatellite before it left CU ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß. A ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß student-built microsatellite is on its way to the International Space Station. The satellite, named ‘Challenger’, had a successful
Illustration of robot landing and moving on an asteroid. If humans in future decades realize a goal of mining asteroids for water, Jay McMahon may very well be able to take credit for helping to make it happen. McMahon, 34, is the recipient of
2017 Aerospace Honorees Michael DeLucaInstitute for Modeling Plasma, Atmospheres, and Cosmic Dust (IMPACT) in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)"I investigate cosmic dust and the instruments we use to
When Robert Braun was 11, a neighbor brought him to work at the Goddard Space Center in Maryland. Braun was interested in space, and that day, the Viking 1 lander was scheduled to touch down on Mars, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to land on
Alumni, industry execs and other space buffs celebrated the state’s growing prominence in aerospace—from probing the Bennu asteroid to an array of industry partnerships—at the second annual CU ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Aerospace Summit earlier this week. The summit,
CU ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß research associate Luis Zea working at BioServe Space Technologies. By observing the health of astronauts that travel into space, scientists have learned that microgravity has important effects on the human body, causing substantial
