Space
- Sean Peters is leading a $2.45 million initiative to develop power efficient passive radar systems that could peek under the surface of Mars.
- On June 25, more than 50 LASP employees, family and friends attended the Kennedy Space Center launch of NOAA’s GOES-U satellite carrying the fourth and final Extreme Ultraviolet and X-Ray Irradiance Sensors instrument aboard.
- A joint proposal of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has earned a $2 million award for a NASA mission concept study.
- Postdoctoral researcher Abhi Doddi is collecting scientific data outdoors in a 70 mph whiteout blizzard. It is just another day of life in Antarctica.
- On June 25, the last instrument in a series designed and built in ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥, is scheduled to launch aboard an orbiting satellite. It's part of a program that spots flares leaping out from around the sun before they can cause trouble on Earth.
- Light pollution from streetlights and other sources is making dark skies harder to find. ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder astronomer Erica Ellingson gives her take on where you can still go in ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ to see brilliant displays of stars.
- Odysseus, a tenacious lander built by the company Intuitive Machines, almost didn't make it to the moon. But an experiment aboard the spacecraft managed to capture an image of Earth as it might look to observers on a planet far from our own.
- A team of industry partners and ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder researchers, including the lab of Hanspeter Schaub, is trying to make it easier to dock with satellites orbiting Earth.
- In 1612, astronomer Galileo Galilei observed dark splotches can sunspots moving across the face of the sun. A new study could reveal the engine that drives these cloudy features, and much of the sun's volatile activity.
- The Committee on Space Research has for the first time designated ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics a center of excellence for capacity-building in CubeSat technologies.