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  • Rocket launching.
    Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, will host a seminar about ULA’s vision for a self-sustaining space economy and transforming the future of space launch during a visit to campus March 20. Bruno, a graduate of Cal Poly,
  • A group photo of the team.
    The °µÍø½ûÇø has earned second place in NASA’s Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge.The engineering design competition enlists university teams from across the nation to develop creative solutions to
  • CU Boulder Professor Xinlin Li holds up a model of the CSSWE cube satellite that studied energetic particles in Earth's magnetosphere. The new CIRBE cube satellite will build on the success of the CSSWE. Photo: LASP
    A NASA-funded cube satellite built and operated by CU Boulder researchers will study the inner radiation belt of Earth’s magnetosphere, providing new insight into the energetic particles that can disrupt satellites and threaten spacewalking
  • A rendering of a space probe approaching an asteroid.
    Saturday, March 17, 2018 • 1–3 p.m. Daniel Scheeres, Distinguished Professor, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Asteroids frequently pass close to or impact the Earth, very occasionally with devastating
  • Aerospace Building construction site.
    A new building is taking shape on the °µÍø½ûÇøâ€™s East Campus, and it’s getting an extra boost thanks to expanding student enrollment.Construction of a 144,000-square-foot dedicated facility for the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace
  • Shankini Doraisingam and Jack Fischer inside Fiske Planetarium
    Congratulations to Shankini Doraisingam for receiving the Silver Snoopy Award for her work with astronauts aboard the International Space Station! Doraisingam is an engineer with the °µÍø½ûÇø's Bioserve Space Technologies, a
  • Jack Fischer
    Friday, March 2 | 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. | Fiske Planetarium, Main Campus. *Space is limited, please RSVP.Jack D. Fischer (Colonel, U.S. Air Force) was selected by NASA in July 2009. Having grown up in nearby Louisville, Colorado, Fischer served
  • Students holding the drone.
    A team of engineering students is designing a whale-scouting drone to help scientists learn about the mysterious language of sperm whales and, in the process, help save the massive mammals from harm and potential extinction.The engineering project
  • Steve Nerem
    A research team led by aerospace professor Steve Nerem detects an acceleration in the 25-year satellite sea level record. Global sea level rise is not cruising along at a steady 3 mm per year, it’s accelerating a little every year, like a
  • Richard Barnitz and a second soldier in Marine Corps uniforms.
    As a CU engineering student and a veteran, I’ve met many students like myself who are hoping to expand their scope of knowledge about real engineering issues. So this week we’re having our first meeting of the CU chapter of the Society of American
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