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The 65th International Astronautical Congress was well attended by faculty, staff, and students of the Space Studies Department September 29 – October 3, 2014.  This conference included presentations by faculty and students on current research, and a booth to promote the program and recruit future students as well.  There was also a Space Studies alumni […]

Space Studies master’s student, Daniela Henckel, will give her thesis proposal presentation as follows.  All Space Studies students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend. When:  Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 8:00 am Where:  Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title: Ceres – VISIR surface composition analysis: A review in advance of the DAWN mission  About the topic: Ceres is […]

The fall semester Brown Bag Seminar Series features graduate students providing presentations on their current research and recent internships.  The series continues on Wednesday, November 5th, featuring grad student Lindsay Anderson presenting “ Using Weather Radar Data to Detect Meteorite Falls and Calculate Strewn Fields”. This series of presentations will be held in the Space […]

The fall semester Brown Bag Seminar Series features graduate students providing presentations on their current research and recent internships.  The series continues on Wednesday, November 5th, featuring grad student Lindsay Anderson presenting “ Using Weather Radar Data to Detect Meteorite Falls and Calculate Strewn Fields”. This series of presentations will be held in the Space […]

The fall semester Brown Bag Seminar Series features graduate students providing presentations on their current research and recent internships.  The series continues on Wednesday, October 22nd, featuring grad student Tiffany Swarmer presenting “HI-SEAS Experience and Outcomes from Summer 2014” This series of presentations will be held in the Space Studies Library at noon.  Lunch will […]

Approximately 115 education students participated in workshops at North Dakota State University, Valley City State University, the University of North Dakota, and Dickinson State University in the fall semester 2014.  Resources for these workshops are listed below. Strange New Planet Student Handout NASA websites and Kepler Presentation NASA websites and Kepler Presentation (UND) Strange New […]

Dr. Pablo de Leon and his group of three volunteers began a 30-day planetary analog mission on Wednesday, October 8th.  More details here from the Grand Forks Herald. A local television crew was on hand during the “send-off”.  You can watch the WDAZ broadcast from that evening’s news segment. Updates during the mission will be […]

The John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences and the UND Aerospace Foundation will hold a ground-breaking ceremony at 10 a.m.  Thursday, Oct. 9, on the corner of James Ray Drive and University Ave. for Robin Hall, a new 66,000-square-foot aerospace research facility. It will house secure areas and other spaces for the school’s Unmanned […]

UND Aerospace professor pens new work on history of satellite communications The new iPhone 6 is the latest buzz, jam packed with novel digital wizardry. You could say the genesis of this technology—imaginable but not doable 20 years ago—evolved from the beep-beep-beep of Sputnik. That was the world’s first artificial satellite, launched Oct. 4, 1957, […]

The new iPhone 6 is the latest buzz, jam packed with novel digital wizardry. You could say the genesis of this technology—imaginable but not doable 20 years ago—evolved from the beep-beep-beep of Sputnik. That was the world’s first artificial satellite, launched Oct. 4, 1957, by the Soviet Union. That launch triggered the “Space Race” and […]