AeroSpace Ventures News
On December 8, students and professionals from LASP assumed control of NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission just after it lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida—the culmination of years of preparation, including thousands of hours of training and all-night rehearsals.
Drawing on electromagnetic and optical observations from Parker Solar Probe, a team led by LASP researcher and Boulder professor David Malaspina has produced the most complete picture yet of how hypervelocity dust impacts may damage a spacecraft and disturb its operations.
The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (TE) is slated to launch into space Sept. 27. The approximately $4 million spacecraft, a smaller-than-usual type of satellite known as a “CubeSat,” is about as large as a “family-sized box of Cheerios,” said LASP researcher Kevin France.
The UAE Space Agency is embarking on a new space mission in collaboration with Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at Boulder. The mission will build on the success of the UAE’s ongoing Emirates Mars Mission to visit a much more ambitious target: the asteroid belt.
Exposure to the Sun degrades light sensors of all kinds, from retinas in the human eye to instruments aboard NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite, or SDO. Fortunately, with periodic calibrations, the latter can continue transmitting high-quality data to researchers on Earth.
Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David D. Thompson joined University of Colorado President Todd Saliman, Boulder Provost Russell Moore and others on the UC Colorado Springs campus to sign the memorandum of understanding on Aug. 20.
A study co-authored by Professor Keith Julien (Applied Math) offers a new window into the sun’s mysterious inner workings and may have future implications for understanding space weather, which affects everything from satellites to the electrical grid.
Marcus Holzinger, a Smead Faculty Fellow and associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, will address the Subcommittee on Space and Science on July 22. The hearing will focus on Space Situational Awareness, Space Traffic Management and Orbital Debris.
A four-star general traveled to Boulder last week to highlight the system’s participation in a new effort called the Space Force University Partnership Program, designed to spur research supporting the newest military branch’s mission to protect U.S. and allied interests in space.
An aerospace PhD student at Boulder recently returned from a two-week stay at the Mars Desert Research Station, which gives scientists and engineers the opportunity to test out future space experiments in an environment closer to home.