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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 research lab wearing special antistatic lab...

Congratulations to the CU Boulder MinXSS CubeSat team! MinXSS won the Mission of the Year award at the 2016 AIAA Small Sat Conference . MinXSS was the people’s choice and was confirmed by the panel of approximately 20 satellite experts from industry, academia, and government. Eight other missions were in...

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’s Engineering Center, revealing a live, high-def image of astronaut Kate Rubins floating through the International Space Station. With a video camera...

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’s budding efforts to monitor the sun’s activity, a new study by aerospace professor Delores Knipp finds. On May 23,...

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" large enough to cover the entire University of Colorado...

University of Colorado Boulder 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 the Georgia Institute of Technology, will arrive on the...

Vice Chancellor for Research Terri Fiez has named Abby Benson as the executive director of CU Boulder AeroSpace Ventures (ASV) . Benson was previously the associate vice president of Government Relations for the University of Colorado system. CU Boulder AeroSpace Ventures is a global leader in interdisciplinary research and education...

The Space Research Company, founded by aerospace PhD candidate Christine Fanchiang, and research associate Luis Zea placed second in a national pitch competition in Los Angeles. The RECESS National Pitch Competition was held in June in Los Angeles. Fanchiang and Zea's company is a startup out of CU Boulder that...

Representatives Dan Nordberg and Paul Rosenthal introduce the Aerospace Day resolution in the Colorado House. The Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences celebrated Aerospace Day at the Colorado State Capitol building on March 21, 2016. The aerospace industry is a major portion of the Colorado economy. The state ranks second in...