12 August 2020
Arecibo Observatory damaged by broken cable
... the partially wrecked facility, said managers of the Puerto Rican landmark, who are based at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. “We have a team of experts assessing the situation,” says Francisco Cordova, the director of the observatory...
09 November 2020
More woe for Arecibo as a second cable breaks causing more damage
... of the facility is complete…And the safety plan can’t be completed without the structural analysis,” advised the University of Central Florida (UCF), who along with Universidad Ana G. Méndez and Yang Enterprises Inc. operate the observatory under...
14 January 2020
Rising sea levels pose threat to KSC
... and stronger hurricanes, not everyone is convinced. Joseph Donoghue, an ocean sciences professor at the University of Central Florida, is assessing the effects of major storms on coastal environments at the National Center of Integrated Coastal...
10 June 2020
New map boosts chances of finding water on the Moon
...), to the South Pole of the Moon, a new study could give the mission a head start as researchers at the University of Central Florida have created an Ice Favorability Index map so that potential prospectors can find where the best ice...
14 January 2019
New steam-powered asteroid hopper that could run 'forever'
... out in space, from asteroid to asteroid for example. But that is exactly what scientists from the University of Central Florida have been working on in collaboration with a private space company – Honeybee Robotics based in California – and it works...
June 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... now where they've flown their version of Skylab", says Roger Handberg, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida, comparing Tiangong 1 to the US's first space station. The diminutive Skylab launched in 1973 and, along with...
