Students design robotic lunar rover that could give us deeper look into the universe
Students design robotic lunar rover that could give us deeper look into the universe

July 17, 2019

From ABC Action News: There鈥檚 a group of students at the 麻豆视频 working on a project of astronomical proportions. They鈥檙e building a prototype lunar rover that could help us understand the origins of the universe. 鈥淭his is the antenna module,鈥 student Arun Kumar says, as he demonstrates...

Robots may beat humans back to the moon Robots may beat humans back to the moon
Robots may beat humans back to the moon Robots may beat humans back to the moon

July 17, 2019

Video from Reuters TV: Watch this video of telerobotic deployment of low radio frequency telescopes on the lunar farside featuring a number of our students at University of Colorado.

麻豆视频 director of NASA NLSI Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research Jack Burns stands for a portrait at the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder
Robots to install telescopes to peer into cosmos from the moon

July 15, 2019

From Reuters Science News: BOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) - As the United States races to put humans back on the moon for the first time in 50 years, a NASA-funded lab in Colorado aims to send robots there to deploy telescopes that will look far into our galaxy, remotely operated by...

The far side of the moon offers a unique opportunity to radio astronomers: an observatory built there could peer into the early universe, shielded from electromagnetic interference from Earth. Illustration: Peter Sanitra
Rovers Will Unroll a Telescope on the Moon鈥檚 Far Side

July 10, 2019

From IEEE Spectrum: For decades, astronomers have gazed up at the moon and dreamed about what they would do with its most unusual real estate. Because the moon is gravitationally locked to our planet, the same side of the moon always faces us. That means the lunar far side is...

Peaks within the moon鈥檚 Tycho Crater.
Three projects tapped by NASA for lunar exploration have Boulder ties

July 4, 2019

From the Daily Camera: NASA has announced a dozen science and technology payloads that will be at the core of the nation鈥檚 mission to put humans back on the moon by 2024, and two of them are led by investigators based in Boulder, while a third also has local ties...

Ascent Abort-2 successfully launched at 7 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 46
Successful Orion Test Brings NASA Closer to Moon, Mars Missions

July 2, 2019

From NASA: NASA successfully demonstrated Tuesday the Orion spacecraft鈥檚 launch abort system can outrun a speeding rocket and pull astronauts to safety during an emergency during launch. The test is another milestone in the agency鈥檚 preparation for Artemis missions to the Moon that will lead to astronaut missions to Mars...

Orion Launch Abort System launch photo
Ensuring Astronaut Safety: Lockheed Martin And NASA Successfully Demonstrate Orion Launch Abort System In Flight Test

July 2, 2019

From Lockheed Martin/PRNewswire: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., July 2, 2019 The critical launch abort system for NASA's Orion spacecraft was put to its hardest test today, and it demonstrated its capability to pull the crew module and future astronauts to safety during a launch if there is an emergency. Lockheed...

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Scientists scramble to build payload for 2021 moon landing

July 2, 2019

From Berkeley News: Scavenging spare parts and grabbing off-the-shelf hardware, University of California, Berkeley, space scientists are in a sprint to build scientific instruments that will land on the moon in a mere two years. NASA announced yesterday that it has selected 12 scientific payloads to fly aboard three lunar...

Illustration of the Moon with Earth in view
NASA Selects 12 New Lunar Science, Technology Investigations

July 1, 2019

From NASA Release 19-053: NASA has selected 12 new science and technology payloads that will help us study the Moon and explore more of its surface as part of the agency鈥檚 Artemis lunar program. These investigations and demonstrations will help the agency send astronauts to the Moon by 2024 as...

Photo of Jack Burns with SOS Moon in background
Heading Back to the Moon (This Time, For Good)

June 28, 2019

From the Coloradan Alumni Magazine: On Dec. 13, 1972, Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan stepped off the surface of the moon and onto a ladder leading up the Challenger lunar module. 鈥淲e leave as we came,鈥 he鈥檇 proclaimed a moment earlier, 鈥渁nd, God willing, as we shall return, with peace...

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