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The Smead Program presents: Researchpalooza. Friday, February 9, 2024, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. in the Aerospace Building. Students and faculty are invited to give 10-minute talks highlighting current research in a friendly and informal event. Sign up to present now!

Clare Atzert Director, Surface Ship Systems, Naval Reactors Friday, Feb. 2 | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 120 Abstract: The presentation will provide an overview of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. For this portion of the brief, I will provide a summary of the mission of the Program, as well as...

LiteWave Technologies , a spinout of CU Boulder and a subsidiary of Orion Space Solutions , has been acquired by Arcfield , a leading government technology and mission support provider. LiteWave’s core technology emerged from the lab of Jeffrey Thayer , professor emeritus and research professor in the Ann and...

Delores Knipp was interviewed by the Washington Post for a new article on the sun entering its most active period in two decades. Knipp, a research professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, is an expert on solar wind-geospace coupling and space weather and has...

Ping Lu Professor, Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University Friday, Jan. 26 | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 120 Abstract: Aerospace Guidance is a relatively young technical area, having only emerged as a stand-alone specialty during the Apollo Program. Today, with NASA’s Artemis Program aiming to send astronauts back to the...

Hanspeter Schaub is being recognized by the American Astronautical Society. AAS is honoring Schaub as the 2024 Dirk Brouwer Award for "transformational work in the emerging field of charged spacecraft formation flight and control and for sustained and outstanding contributions to astrodynamics research, application, and teaching." Schaub is a professor...

Tory Bruno is one of the world’s foremost experts in rocket technology and the launch industry. As the president and chief executive officer for United Launch Alliance (ULA), Bruno serves as principal strategic leader of the organization and oversees all business management and operations.

Lakshmi Kantha was interview by the Wall Street Journal for a new video on the Boeing X-37B. The uncrewed military space plane can stay aloft for over a year and recently started a new, classified mission. Kantha is a professor emeritus in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace...

Robyn Macdonald is pushing the limits of hypersonic research with a new NASA grant. Macdonald, an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been awarded a $600,000 Early Career award from NASA to improve computational modeling of...

Pete Worden Chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, Former Director of NASA Ames Friday, Jan. 19 | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 120 The Breakthrough Initiatives are a suite of scientific space exploration programs searching for signatures of life beyond Earth. These efforts include Breakthrough Listen, a search for technosignatures and...