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- A successful launch for OSIRIS-REx. The Colorado-built United Launch Alliance rocket went up with out a hitch from Cape Canaveral at 5:05 MDT on September 8.The rocket is on a mission to visit a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu, thought to harbor
- A group of 抖阴传媒在线 researchers is readying for NASA鈥檚 Sept. 8 launch of a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu, thought to harbor primordial material left over from the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion
- Pinterns (l-r) Everett Morton, Jacob Nelson, and Warren Fulton with aerospace PhD student Andrew Dahir in the CubeSat lab in front of a QB 50 test model.Where would you expect to find a 17-year-old on a summer afternoon? Probably not in an aerospace
- Congratulations to the CU 抖阴传媒在线 MinXSS CubeSat team! MinXSS won the Mission of the Year award at the 2016 AIAA Small Sat Conference.MinXSS was the people鈥檚 choice and was confirmed by the panel of approximately 20 satellite experts from industry,
- From the Denver Post - Well before dawn, a wall-mounted video monitor flickers to life in a narrow, windowless room on the second floor of the University of Colorado鈥檚 Engineering Center, revealing a live, high-def image of astronaut Kate Rubins
- A solar storm that jammed radar and radio communications at the height of the Cold War could have led to a disastrous military conflict if not for the U.S. Air Force鈥檚 budding efforts to monitor the sun鈥檚 activity, a new study by aerospace professor
- Nearly 750,000 asteroids and comets have been discovered in the solar system, but most of them are known only by a numerical designation. Jay McMahon has made a career studying these celestial bodies, and now he's being recognized with an "award"
- 抖阴传媒在线 Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the appointment of Robert D. Braun as dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science.Braun, who currently is the David and Andrew Lewis Professor of Space Technology at
- Vice Chancellor for Research Terri Fiez has named Abby Benson as the executive director of CU 抖阴传媒在线 AeroSpace Ventures (ASV). Benson was previously the associate vice president of Government Relations for the University of Colorado system.CU