The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public research university with significant involvement in the space industry through various research centers, academic programs, and partnerships. UNM's Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies (ISNPS) focuses on space power and propulsion technologies, while the university also offers a Space Systems Engineering program. UNM partners with organizations like NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on projects related to space technology development, including nanosatellites, entry system simulation, and International Space Station research. Keywords associated with UNM's space activities include: space research, space systems engineering, NASA partnerships, AFRL, and nanosatellites.
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Tony Gargano is the lead author of the study and is affiliated with the Universities Space Research Association's Lunar and Planetary Institute and the University of New Mexico.
Tony Gargano and colleagues are training Albuquerque high school students in planetary science and geochemistry using the University of New Mexico’s Astromaterials collection, including students Brooklyn Bird and Violet Delu from the Bosque School.
A team led by Tony Gargano at the Lunar and Planetary Institute and the University of New Mexico used high-precision triple oxygen isotope measurements on a large suite of Apollo lunar regolith samples in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The research on planetary defense was funded by NASA at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and included partnerships with the NNSA at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
The Kennedy Space Center and the University of New Mexico’s Biological Computation Lab developed Swarmies robots equipped with webcams, GPS, Wi‑Fi antennas, and sensors to search for water.
Qubitekk of Vista, California will work with the University of New Mexico to develop a cheaper and more compact hardware package that provides a reliable calibration tool for detectors of quantum-sized information.