September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
... hope for a commercial spaceplane, but this year’s Farnborough International Airshow (FIA) and the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs highlighted a potential competitor (offering a two-stage to orbit solution), in the shape of Canada-based Space...
27 May 2016
Scientists reveal Mars is emerging from an ice age
... Isaac Smith, the study's lead author. Smith led the work while at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, but is now at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. The retreat and regrowth of polar ice on Mars...
06 June 2016
Galaxies guilty of 'wasting' precious planet building material
... of the list for galactic re-use in star and planet formation, however in a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder, researchers have discovered that galaxies are in fact very wasteful and most of the material needed...
06 January 2017
NASA selects three new missions to study the early solar system and energetic X-rays from black holes
... opportunity,” said Harold F. Levison, principal investigator of the Lucy mission from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. “Because the Trojans are remnants of the primordial material that formed the outer planets, they hold...
07 April 2017
Astronauts can zip to safety with new Emergency Egress System (EES) from ULA
... for it to become free. Boeing and ULA have already demonstrated the EES to willing participants on a zipline spanning Colorado’s Royal Gorge, but soon crew and staff will get the chance to test out the facilities...
26 January 2018
NASA launches GOLD to study Earth-space boundary
...," said Richard Eastes, GOLD principal investigator at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. "That's where GOLD comes in: For the first time, the mission gives us the big picture...
