CU: Major space mystery solved using data from student-built satellite

CU: Major space mystery solved using data from student-built satellite

BOULDER -- A 60-year-old mystery regarding the source of some energetic and potentially damaging particles in Earths radiation belts is now solved using data from a shoebox-sized satellite built... Read More

Thursday December 14, 2017 0 comments Tags: Boulder, CU Boulder, Xinlin Li, LASP, Daniel Baker, Scott Palo

CU-designed solar package to be delivered to space station on Dec. 12

CU-designed solar package to be delivered to space station on Dec. 12

BOULDER -- A solar instrument package designed and built by the University of Colorado Boulder to help monitor Earths climate is now set for launch Dec. 12 aboard a SpaceX rocket from NASAs... Read More

Friday December 8, 2017 0 comments Tags: Boulder, CU Boulder, NASA, International Space Station, Peter Pilewskie, LASP, Stefanie Countryman, BioServe Space Technologies

CU Boulder team selected to build satellite to study ‘evaporating’ planets

CU Boulder team selected to build satellite to study ‘evaporating’ planets

BOULDER -- A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has been selected to build a tiny orbiting satellite to study the evaporating atmospheres of gigantic hot Jupiters -- distant gaseous... Read More

Wednesday November 1, 2017 0 comments Tags: Boulder, CU Boulder, Kevin France, Blue Canyon Technologies, CUTE, LASP, NASA

CU Boulder scientists ready for Cassini mission to Saturn Sept. 15 grand finale

CU Boulder scientists ready for Cassini mission to Saturn Sept. 15 grand finale

BOULDER -- University of Colorado Boulder Professor Larry Esposito has been eying the fabulous rings of Saturn for much of his career, beginning as a team scientist on NASAs Pioneer 11 mission... Read More

Thursday September 14, 2017 0 comments Tags: Boulder, CU Boulder, Larry Esposito, Cassini spacecraft, LASP

MAVEN spacecraft orbits Mars for 1,000 days

MAVEN spacecraft orbits Mars for 1,000 days

BOULDER -- NASAs MAVEN mission to Mars led by the University of Colorado Boulder hit a milestone on June 17, marking 1,000 days of orbiting the red planet. Since its launch in November 2013... Read More

Monday June 19, 2017 0 comments Tags: Boulder, CU Boulder, MAVEN, NASA, Bruce Jakosky, LASP

CU Boulder space weather instrument installed on commercial satellite

CU Boulder space weather instrument installed on commercial satellite

BOULDER -- A University of Colorado Boulder-built instrument that will provide unprecedented imaging of the Earths upper atmosphere has been successfully installed on the commercial satellite... Read More

Thursday May 18, 2017 0 comments Tags: Boulder, CU Boulder, LASP, NASA, Richard Eastes, William McClintock

CU-Boulder team joins NASA to build lunar astronomical observatories

CU-Boulder team joins NASA to build lunar astronomical observatories

BOULDER -- A University of Colorado-Boulder team has entered into a five-year, $4.5 million cooperative agreement with NASA to become part of a virtual institute to pursueconstruction of... Read More

Tuesday March 28, 2017 0 comments Tags: Boulder, CU-Boulder, Jack Burns, NASA, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, IMPACT, LASP, NESS, Mihaly Horanyi

Ready for Nov. 19 launch: CU-Boulder's LASP instrument suite to assess space weather effects

Ready for Nov. 19 launch: CU-Boulder's LASP instrument suite to assess space weather effects

BOULDER -- A multi-million-dollar University of Colorado-Boulder instrument package expected to help scientists better understand potentially damaging space weather is now slated to launch aboard... Read More

Friday November 11, 2016 0 comments Tags: Boulder, CU-Boulder, LASP, GOES-R satellite, Frank Eparvier, Lockheed Martin, United Launch Alliance, Mike Anfinson