BioServe Space Technologies at CU Boulder is designing a space-rated refrigerator for astronauts to store experiments, as well as tasty food treats from home. The first two units are scheduled for delivery to NASA this summer, with a planned launch on the NG-14 resupply mission on September 7.

The chair of the space committee will be Mark Sirangelo, a scholar in residence in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at CU Boulder and former chief executive of Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems.

Professor Cora Randall and Associate Professor David Brain will lead the LASP centers, each of which will receive $1.3 million over two years. At the end of that time, both projects will also be eligible to apply for additional funding of up to $15 million.

According to Bryce Space and Technology’s just-released 2020 Small Sat Report, CU Boulder is leading all United States academic institutions and non-profits in the launch of small satellites between 2012 and 2019 and is No. 3 globally.

Ramon Brasser and coauthor Stephen Mojzsis, a professor in CU Boulder’s Department of Geological Sciences, think they have an answer to the question of why material from the inner and outer solar system didn’t mix from very early on in its history.

Paul Sánchez is being recognized with a rare honor: an asteroid that bears his name. The International Astronomical Union has announced that asteroid 2000 VH57 is now officially named (20882) Paulsánchez.

Space plasma physicist David Malaspina is part of a team of CU Boulder scientists who contributed to a signal processing electronics board that is integral to the FIELDS experiment, one of four suites of instruments onboard NASA's Parker Solar Probe.

The International Space Station has a problem with fungus and mold. BioServe Space Technologies at CU Boulder has been awarded a $750,000 grant by NASA to increase our understanding of the organisms and investigate ways to stop them.

Iain Boyd has also been named National Security Faculty Director for the Research & Innovation Office. In this capacity, he will be building new research partnerships between campus and the defense community.

Occupying roughly 175,000 square feet on East Campus, the building will be the new home for faculty and students seeking to expand humanity’s presence in space—and explore our home planet, too.