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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...

Smead Aerospace students earned third place in the 2024 NASA Human Lander Challenge. PhD students Ella Schauss (Advisor: Allison Hayman ) and Amrita Singh (Advisor: James Nabity ) represented the Â鶹ÊÓƵ in the inaugural NASA event, which called for student teams to design solutions to manage Moon...

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...

Abhi Doddi (PhDAeroEngr’21) is collecting scientific data outdoors in a 70 mph whiteout blizzard. It is just another day of life in Antarctica. Doddi, a postdoctoral researcher at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, is leading a major study involving high-altitude balloons to improve weather forecasting on the Antarctic continent.

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...

The University of Colorado Aerospace Engineering department is partnering with the Boulder Emergency Squad to evaluate the use of AI-enabled drones in search and rescue operations. The research allows rescuers to feed information to drones, which can then independently help teams scout locations or find individuals. "What we're doing with...

Congratulation to two Smead Aerospace PhD students for earning 2024 Zonta Amelia Earhart Fellowships! The program recognizes up to 30 women annually pursuing doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering and space sciences. Andrea Lopez (Advisor: Hanspeter Schaub ) Erin Richardson (Advisor: Allie Hayman ) The program is open to students worldwide...

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...

Four Â鶹ÊÓƵ aerospace graduate students have been named 2024 Draper Scholars. The Scholars program provides recipients with the opportunity to work at Draper’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, conducting research and contributing to programs in national security, space systems, biotechnology and strategic systems. The four recipients from Smead...

CU Boulder professor secures $800,000 NASA Grant. Khosro Ghobadi-Far is advancing the science of climate change with orbiting satellites...