In line with NASA's recently issued "Asteroid Grand Challenge," the UA is at the forefront of discovering and tracking space rocks, engaging the global community in the effort and is poised to send a spacecraft to a potentially hazardous asteroid to bring a sample back to Earth.
NASA has issued an ...
UA Strong Ally in NASA’s Call to Find Dangerous Asteroids
Posted On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ARIZONA Tags: Asteroid Grand Challenge, citizen science asteroid program, hazardous asteroid, NASA, University of Arizona
In line with NASA's recently issued "Asteroid Grand Challenge," the UA is at the forefront of discovering and tracking space rocks, engaging the global community in the effort and is poised to send a spacecraft to a potentially hazardous asteroid to bring a sample back to Earth.
NASA has issued an ...
Stanford Professor and Former NASA official explains how NASA…
Posted On Sunday, May 19, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA, FEATURED Tags: Kepler Space Telescope, NASA, Scott Hubbard, Stanford's School of Engineering
Stanford professor and former NASA official explains how NASA might revive the Kepler space telescope
Scott Hubbard, a consulting professor of aeronautics and astronautics, helped guide the Kepler mission when he served as director of NASA Ames Research Center. He explains how NASA might bring the planet-hunting spacecraft back online.
NASA officials ...
Dartmouth Space Physicists Explore Earth’s Radiation Belts
Posted On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY, Faculty, Global, Joseph Blumberg, Mary Hudson, NASA, Research, Robyn Millan, Science
They say that it’s sunspots. That is the typical explanation you hear when your television goes on the fritz or your cellphone quits working or the GPS in your car tells you you’re driving in the middle of the ocean. Certainly, the sun is at the root of your problem, ...
The University Of Texas at Austin Wins First Place In National Nanosatellite Competition
Posted On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 By USA Education News. Under TEXAS Tags: Cockrell School of Engineering, Deparment of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Kudos, nanosatellite, NASA, Satellite Design Lab
AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin’s Satellite Design Lab has won first place in the national University Nanosatellite Program competition for designing and building a small satellite called ARMADILLO.
Led by Professor Glenn Lightsey in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, the Satellite Design Lab is ...
Clemson University and NASA Challenge Middle-Schoolers to Plan Asteroid Mission
Posted On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 By USA Education News. Under SOUTH CAROLINA Tags: asteroid mission, Clemson University, middle-schoolers, NASA
CLEMSON — Clemson University and NASA are teaming up once again to ask students to design a mission to an asteroid.
This is the second year in which NASA, Clemson University and other members of the NASA Human Health and Performance Center are challenging students in the sixth through eighth grades ...
