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Outer space is incomprehensibly vast and empty. Yet over the past century, humans have managed to clutter a region known as low Earth orbit (LEO), which stretches from 125 to 1,200 miles above the surface of the planet, with "space debris." This
ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ’s Alumni Awards are recognizing Vanessa Aponte (PhDAeroEngr’06) as the 2021 recipient of the Kalpana Chawla Award. Vanessa Aponte’s career is out of this world — quite literally. A systems engineer focused on human spaceflight
Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson shared stories from his life and career during a special webinar with the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. Tyson took part in a discussion hosted by Entrepreneur-in-
Students at Windsor High School in northern Colorado were given the opportunity to combine rocket science with studying altitudes and velocities. Matt Rhode, Smead Aerospace mechanical design & manufacturing lab manager met with a group of high
It is one of the coldest and most isolated places on Earth, but for a team of scientists and engineers from ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ, it is the ideal location to conduct complex space-atmospheric research: the frozen tundra of Antarctica.
A ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ team has taken home third place and $500,000 in prize money in an international competition that sends teams of robots deep underground to conduct search-and-rescue operations. The ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ group, made up of engineers from across the
Xinlin Li, a researcher at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) and a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (AES) at the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ, has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical
A special 1/3 scale GPS IIIF satellite mockup built by Lockheed Martin has been dedicated in the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Aerospace Building. ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ and Lockheed Martin officials held a ceremony Friday, Sept. 24 to mark the installation of the satellite, which is...
Imagine living in a city in the distant (or maybe not-so-distant) future: You need to make an appointment across town, so you step into a pod in an underground tunnel. From there, you’re whizzed at breakneck speeds through a series of twisting and
Vanessa Aponte’s career is out of this world — quite literally. A systems engineer focused on human spaceflight and landing systems, she has spent the past two decades pursuing humanity’s final frontier. Originally from Puerto Rico, Aponte first