Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)

  • Bob Marshall
    Bob Marshall is studying the interaction of high-energy particles in orbit around Earth using an unlikely data source: radio signals sent by the U.S. Navy to communicate with submarines under the ocean.

    The assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the ñ has earned a...
  • Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system.
    Jay McMahon is joining a groundbreaking NASA mission to test asteroid deflection technology. McMahon, an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the ñ has been named a participating scientist in the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). DART is the first...
  • Tomoko Matsuo
    In response to solar storms, electrons and ions are produced in the Earth’s magnetosphere that collide with the upper atmosphere’s oxygen and nitrogen. This collision causes a release of energy in the form of a magnificent glow of light - an aurora
  • Penina Axelrad
    Penina Axelrad has built her career pushing the boundaries of GPS technology.As a faculty member in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, she has earned accolades from her peers, served in leadership
  • Álvaro Romero-Calvo
    Álvaro Romero-Calvo is sending research up, up and away with Blue Origin. The second-year aerospace PhD student at the ñ has won the 2021 Ken Souza Memorial Student Spaceflight Research Program, sponsored by the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, earning him a payload slot on...
  • Textbook covers.
    Professor Jade Morton's new book has been published. Morton is the lead editor of Position, Navigation, and Timing Technologies in the 21st Century (PNT21), now available from Wiley-IEEE Press. The textbook follows more than five years of work by
  • Thermoelectric concept from Mahmoud Hussein
    Fourteen university innovators including Smead Aerospace's Mahmoud Hussein and Scott Palo pitched their technologies at Lab Venture Challenge (LVC), a funding competition hosted by Venture Partners at ñ that helps
  • Paul Sánchez
    The latest episode of PBS's NOVA spotlights NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission and the effort to understand and protect Earth against the prospect of a rogue asteroid. Paul Sánchez, a senior research associate in the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics
  • Lightning strikes
    André Antunes de Sá, a PhD candidate in the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department, is co-author of a new paper published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. The work, released in August, is titled
  • Artist's depiction of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.
    New findings from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that the interior of the asteroid Bennu could be weaker and less dense than its outer layers—like a crème-filled chocolate egg flying though space. The results appear in a study published today in
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