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This seminar will recount the two-year proximity operations and remote sensing campaign at Bennu, including the dramatic sample collection event and the events leading to the landing of the sample capsule in Utah...

In a corner room of the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building at CU Boulder, Torin Clark is about to go for a ride. The associate professor straps himself into what looks like an intimidating dentist’s chair perched on metal scaffolding, which, in turn, rests on a circular base. The whole set...

James Ferlez DARPA Innovation Fellow Monday, Mar. 4 | 9:30 a.m. | AERO 111 Abstract: The last decade has marked a fundamental paradigm shift in autonomous systems design: autonomous systems can now be designed by allowing machines to learn for themselves, most successfully using Neural Network (NN) models. However, autonomous...

Spencer Dansereau is building a business that could turn air pollution into a useable product. A University of Colorado Boulder aerospace PhD student, Dansereau aims to take carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and extract the carbon molecules to create 3D printed carbon fiber, which can be used for everything...

Hisham Ali's work to design and build a plasma wind tunnel for hypersonics research is being featured in The Economist. The article discusses a presentation Ali made last week at the American Association for the Advancement of Science on magnetohydrodynamics -- the study of electrically conducting fluids like plasma, research...

Iain Boyd was interviewed by CBS News for a piece discussing a high altitude balloon slowly making its way across the United States. A professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boyd is also the director of the CU Boulder Center for National Security Initiatives...

Richard Linares Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT Friday, Mar. 8 | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 120 Abstract: The rapid growth of active satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) poses challenges to safe and responsible space operations. MIT Astrodynamics, Space Robotics, and Controls Lab (ARCLab), directed by Prof...

Yutian Pang Machine Learning Research Engineer, Thales Wednesday, Mar. 6 | 9:30 a.m. | AERO 111 Abstract: National Airspace Systems (NAS) are cyber-physical systems that require swift air traffic management (ATM) to ensure flight safety and efficiency. With the surging demand for air travel and the increasing complexity of aviation...

Dr. Natasha Bosanac has earned a 2024 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program award to advance the study of spacecraft trajectories in cislunar space – the region around the Earth and the Moon. The $450,000, three-year AFOSR Young Investigator Program grant recognizes early career researchers conducting...

Three University of Colorado Boulder aerospace graduate students and post-doctoral fellows were honored at the 2024 NASA Human Research Program Investigators Workshop...