Moriba Jah, 1999 Embry-Riddle Space Grant Intern, featured on NPR's Short Wave March 3, 2020 Moriba Jah, the keynote speaker for this year's AZSGC Symposium, is a leader in the field of space traffic management, coordinating the movement of satellites, spent rocket bodies, debris, and other objects in space. Read more
UA Space Grant Mentors, Stuart Craig and Jesse Little, featured in UA News discussing current research on wind tunnels March 2, 2020 The University of Arizona College of Engineering wind tunnels are getting $1.7 million in upgrades, which will boost the capabilities of the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in high-speed aerodynamics research. Read more
NASA Selects Proposals for Student Aeronautics, Space Projects Feb. 21, 2020 Arizona Space Grant's ASCEND balloon-satellite launch program featured on NASA.gov's latest stories as National Space Grant Program celebrates its 30th Anniversary! Read more
Check out current research by 2003 UA Space Grant Intern, Britney Schmidt, on robotic submarines! Jan. 30, 2020 An underwater vehicle from the Georgia Institute of Technology makes its first-ever visit to Thwaites Glacier’s grounding zone as part of the historic International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. Read more
2011 UA/NASA Space Grant Intern, Nabila Huq (right), now researches potential bioblendstock for diesel fuel Dec. 19, 2019 A novel oxygenate molecule that can be produced from biomass shows promise for use as a blend for diesel fuel, according to researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Read more
UA/NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellow, Charles Parrish, at iShowcase Dec. 11, 2019 UA/NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellow, Charles Parrish, demoes a component of his Space Grant Outreach Fellowship work on accessible, immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences. Read more
2019-20 UA/NASA Communications Intern, Rachel Abraham, discusses complex carbon molecules in nebulae with UA Researchers Dec. 3, 2019 Mimicking conditions thought to exist around dying stars, researchers discovered a mechanism that could explain why planetary nebulae are teeming with complex carbon molecules. Read more
UA/NASA Space Grant Mentor, Dr. Monica Ramirez-Andreotta, leads a project to determine whether Arizona town is exposed to harmful mining toxins Nov. 26, 2019 UA-led project studies if Arizona town is exposed to harmful mining toxins By Alana Minkler - The Daily Wildcat "Roy Chavez, a lifelong resident of Superior, Ariz., a small mining Read more
ASU Space Grant students launch CubeSat to study urban heat island effect Nov. 14, 2019 The Arizona State University-led Phoenix CubeSat was launched into space onboard the Antares II rocket from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a Cygnus resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Read more