Dan Scheeres has been named a NASA participating scientist on the European Space Agency’s Hera mission. Scheeres, a distinguished professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, is one of 12 individuals announced by NASA to join the space probe...
Sean Peters is leading a major multi-institutional initiative to develop power efficient passive radar systems that could peek under the surface of Mars. Peters has earned a $2.45 million, three-year NASA grant to create a drone-based system to map subsurface areas. The project includes field-testing on Earth with an eye...
A joint proposal of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland has earned a $2 million award for a NASA mission concept study. The team is one of three concept teams chosen by NASA competing to...
Docking with a satellite orbiting Earth is delicate business, with one wrong move spelling disaster. A team of industry and Â鶹ÊÓƵ researchers is trying to make it easier. The work is part of two major business-university grant partnerships that...
Min Han and Arthur Nozik, both in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Kristine Larson in the College of Engineering and Applied Science have been named members of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The academy, founded in 1780 to help a young nation face its challenges...
Â鶹ÊÓƵ researchers are working to keep America’s armed forces safe in space with a new research grant. Casey Heidrich is leading an Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant to develop a...
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...
Alex Meyer is an astrodynamics expert, engineer, PhD student, and now, a part of the night sky. The International Astronomical Union has officially named an asteroid after him. Asteroid 2000 ND17 is now...
Space News is highlighting a potential new mission for the mothballed Janus spacecrafts. Dan Scheeres, a distinguished professor of aerospace at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, was principal investigator on the Janus mission. Designed and built to launch as a secondary payload on the Psyche mission in 2022, the mission...
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...
