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Small satellites becoming big deal for CU-Boulder students

April 11, 2013

For some 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 undergraduates, designing, building and flying small satellites is becoming a large part of their hands-on education.

鈥楽ideline quasars鈥 helped to stifle early galaxy formation, says CU study

March 21, 2013

澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 astronomers targeting one of the brightest quasars glowing in the universe some 11 billion years ago say 鈥渟ideline quasars鈥 likely teamed up with it to heat abundant helium gas billions of years ago, preventing small galaxy formation.

NASA鈥檚 next Mars mission invites public to come aboard with "Going to Mars" campaign

March 18, 2013

NASA鈥檚 next Mars mission is giving students and the public worldwide an opportunity to have a personal connection with space exploration through a new education and public outreach effort called the 鈥淕oing to Mars鈥 campaign.

NASA鈥檚 next Mars mission invites public to come aboard

March 15, 2013

NASA鈥檚 next Mars mission is giving students and the public worldwide an opportunity to have a personal connection with space exploration through a new education and public outreach effort called the 鈥淕oing to Mars鈥 campaign. The campaign is led on behalf of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN mission, by the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录.

Twin CU-Boulder instruments reveal a third radiation belt can wrap around Earth

Feb. 28, 2013

With the flip of a switch, a pair of instruments designed and built by the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 and flying onboard twin NASA space probes have forced the revision of a 50-year-old theory about the structure of the radiation belts that wrap around the Earth just a few thousand miles above our heads.

NASA鈥檚 MAVEN mission completes assembly, begins environmental testing

Feb. 8, 2013

NASA鈥檚 Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft is assembled and is undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colo. MAVEN is the next mission to Mars and will be the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere.

$20 million CU instrument package set for integration on Mars spacecraft

Nov. 16, 2012

A $20 million remote sensing instrument package built by the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录, which is leading a 2013 NASA mission to understand how Mars might have lost its atmosphere, has been delivered to Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colo., for spacecraft integration.

$20 million CU instrument package set for integration on Mars spacecraft

Nov. 16, 2012

A $20 million remote sensing instrument package built by the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录, which is leading a 2013 NASA mission to understand how Mars might have lost its atmosphere, has been delivered to Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colo., for spacecraft integration.

CU-NIST scientist Deborah Jin receives L鈥橭r茅al-UNESCO For Women in Science award

Oct. 22, 2012

Deborah Jin, an adjoint professor of physics at the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 and a fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been awarded the L鈥橭r茅al-UNESCO For Women in Science award. Jin also is a fellow of JILA, a joint institute of CU-Boulder and NIST located on the CU campus. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate students and was one of five recipients who each will receive $100,000 at an awards ceremony in Paris next March. She was the only recipient in North America.

CU hardware to fly on first-ever NASA-contracted resupply mission to space station

Oct. 5, 2012

A 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 space center is providing hardware and technical support for scientific experiments aboard the first-ever NASA-contracted resupply flight to the International Space Station, slated for launch Oct. 7 from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

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