The University of Colorado (CU) is a prominent research university with significant involvement in the space industry, particularly through its Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP). LASP designs, builds, and operates spacecraft and instruments, sending instruments to every planet in the solar system. CU also partners with organizations like NASA and provides educational and research opportunities for students in aerospace engineering and space exploration.
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STAR-X will include a spacecraft built by Ball Aerospace, an X-ray telescope (XRT) provided by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a UV telescope (UVT) provided by the University of Colorado.
Compact Total Irradiance Monitor (CTIM) is a 6U cubesat funded by NASA and developed by the University of Colorado Boulder to test whether a cubesat can measure total solar irradiance with the same precision as larger spacecraft.
Shayna Hume completed an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an M.E. in Engineering Management from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2020.
The universities selected for the U.S. Space Force University Partnership Program in fiscal year 2021 include Howard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Purdue University, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of North Dakota, University of Southern California, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Texas at El Paso.
C. Channing Chow, Marcus Holzinger, and Peter Garretson authored A Primer on Cislunar Space, with Chow serving as CEO of Cloudstone Innovations, Holzinger as an associate professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Garretson as a consultant at the American Foreign Policy Council.
Stephen Steg spent 18 years at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder where he was responsible for mechanical design and analysis for optical instruments and space mechanisms on NASA programs.
The University of Illinois is working with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and multiple universities on the VISORS program, including the Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Washington State University, the Ohio State University, Purdue University, the University of California San Diego, New Mexico State University, Montana State University, and the University of Colorado.
The University of Colorado Boulder and the Secure World Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding to launch the Space and Sustainability Initiative (SSI).
The NS-13 crew capsule carried a plant growth system for use in microgravity developed by Space Lab Technologies and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Space Lab Technologies developed the µG-LilyPond autonomous plant growth payload in collaboration with the University of Colorado at Boulder, and NASA’s Flight Opportunities program funded the payload’s flight on NS-13.
TSIS-2 will be equipped with the Total Irradiance Monitor and the Spectral Irradiance Monitor built by the University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP).
Dan Baker, director of the University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, supports PROSWIFT as a collaborative framework for the federal government to work with academic, international, and commercial space communities.
Janus, developed by the University of Colorado and Lockheed Martin, would use a pair of smallsats weighing about 40 kg each to fly by binary asteroids.
Andrew Kurzrok and colleagues at Stanford University and the University of Colorado modeled propulsion systems on a notional 10-kilogram nanosatellite in a 300-kilometer orbit assuming the propulsion systems accounted for half the spacecraft's mass, and found outcomes ranging from the satellite reaching medium Earth orbit altitudes within two hours with chemical propulsion to passing geostationary orbit in about a year with an electric propulsion system.