The University of Minnesota is a public land-grant research university with a significant presence in the space industry through its Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics (AEM) Department and its Space Physics group. The AEM department is one of the first 10 accredited aerospace engineering programs in the country and produces graduates who go on to work at NASA and various aerospace companies. The university partners with NASA and other organizations like the Adler Planetarium on projects such as the Zooniverse citizen science platform and the Advanced Computational Center for Entry System Simulation (ACCESS) institute.
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Brandy Toner, a professor at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, noted that InvOW builds on decades of work within her field.
Since 2017, NASA’s Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program has awarded contracts to Airbus U.S., Maxar Technologies, Planet, Spire, Teledyne Brown Engineering, and the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota to share optical, hyperspectral, synthetic aperture radar, and other datasets.
NASA purchases high-resolution Digital Elevation Models produced by the EarthDEM Project, a collaboration that includes the University of Minnesota’s Polar Geospatial Center, Ohio State University’s Byrd Polar Research Center, and the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and that is based on Maxar satellite data.
University of Minnesota’s Endowment invested in Orbital Sidekick’s $10,000,000 funding round.
NASA purchased high-resolution Digital Elevation Models produced by the EarthDEM Project, a collaboration that includes the University of Minnesota’s Polar Geospatial Center, Ohio State University’s Byrd Polar Research Center, and the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and that is based on Maxar satellite data.
NASA purchases high-resolution Digital Elevation Models produced by the EarthDEM Project, a collaboration that includes the University of Minnesota’s Polar Geospatial Center, Ohio State University’s Byrd Polar Research Center, and the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications, based on Maxar satellite data.