John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences

Jon Rask, graduate of the Dept of Space Studies, is spending several months as a researcher at the South Pole. He is shown here with Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway, who was at the South Pole for the 100 anniversary celebration of Roald Amundsen’s arrival there. Rask, along with six other scientists, put together […]

Computing is power, and Travis Desell is effectively harnessing all the power he can. Desell, a faculty member in Computer Science , is researching and developing volunteer computing programs that take advantage of the world’s ever-improving computing and networking capabilities. He’s focusing his efforts on volunteer computing because it competes well with the world’s fastest […]

Space Studies online master’s student, Todd Borzych, will give his thesis proposal presentation as follows. When: Thursday, January 19th at 4:00 p.m. Where: Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title:  Size Dependent Earth-Impactor Warning Times and Corresponding Transponder Mission Designs Warning times for Earth-Impactors have historically been close to zero.  Only in recent years has there been […]

Space Studies master’s student, Tim Holland, will give his thesis proposal presentation as follows. When: Wednesday, January 18th at 3:00 p.m. Where: Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title:  Design and Testing Validation of an Extendable Pressurized Tunnel for an Inflatable Lunar Habitat In the design of the UND inflatable lunar habitat (ILH), the need for an […]

Space Studies master’s student, Rakesh Nath, will give his thesis proposal presentation as follows. When: Thursday, January 26th at 4:00 p.m. Where: Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title:  Commissioning the H-alpha Filter at the UND Observatory for Continuous Monitoring of the un The sun is the most obvious astronomical object that has not had effective continuous […]

President Kelley has commissioned a program review of UAS-related research. The UAS Research Program Review is scheduled for January 18-19. As part of the review, there will be public presentations by each faculty member involved in UAS-related research. The presentations will be held at Skalicky Hall, Room 211, on Wednesday, January 18th from 9:00 a.m. […]

The Department of Space Studies is proud to announce the initial release of a Space Studies application that is available for iPad owners. Produced by John Boucha, a May 2011 Space Studies M.S. graduate, the iPad application educates and informs users about the department and its academic programs as well as basic educational information about […]

Anouncing the first-ever fundraising collaboration between the UND Observatory and the Space Aliens Grill & Bar restaurant in Grand Forks….Beginning on January 17, 2012, Space Studies will be collaborating on a monthly fundraising drive where 20% of the day’s participant gross receipts will be donated to the UND Observatory. If you wish to help raise […]

Kajli Agrawal, a graduate student at UND Space Studies attended the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference 2011 in San Francisco, CA on Dec 5-9. Her abstract, titled “Estimation of E-Region Electron Density Profile Using Radio Occultation Measurements” was selected for poster presentation which was presented by her on Dec 8th 2011. AGU happens to be […]

Alex Diaz has been honored by the Career Communications Group’s USBE and Information Technology magazine’s 2012 Minorities in Research Science (MiRS), by receiving the “Most Promising Scientist” award.  Mr. Diaz is an employee of The Boeing Company doing work in support of the Commercial Crew Development Program.