Space Studies at Major-Minor+Grad Fair
Categories: Space Studies
Dr. Crisman and Ph.D. student Rachel Jones represented Space Studies at the UND Major-Minor+Grad Fair held today at the Memorial Union.
The proposal selected to move forward for funding consideration by NASA is Dr. Ali Alshami’s ” Infusing Artemis Missions with Bioregenerative Life Support System (BLiSS): Deploying and Enhancing Mission Critical Technology.” Good luck to the research team on their proposal! Overview: In response to the NASA Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) EPSCoR Research Announcement Number: […]
Saturn 1B rocket engine update
Categories: Home Page News, Space Studies
After months of meticulous restoration, the Saturn 1B rocket engine is on campus! It is the first artifact from the Apollo program to arrive in North Dakota. Watch this page for an announcement about the grand reveal of its display! #spacestudies #UND #undaerospace
Aerospace Ph.D. student Rachel Jones is featured in the November issue of QST, the monthly membership magazine published by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). Rachel was the Ham Radio operator for Space Studies’ first Adventure Expedition Research and Outreach (AERO) crew led by Dr. Keith Crisman. She completed a successful underwater ham radio call […]
Mission XXII is now underway!
Categories: Space Studies
UND’s Crew On Monday, Oct. 7, Commandar Jurie Visagie, Science Officer Haley Boles, Pilot Shriya Pedaparthi, and Mission Specialist Tate Few (MS’23) entered the Integrated Lunar/Mars Analog Habitat to start their 21-day analog mission. ILMAH provides an immersive and integrated environment that combines the habitat, the exploration rover, and the EVA suits, all constructed on […]
Dr. David Kugler contributed a chapter in a new book, The Final Frontier: Exploring the Militarization of Outer Space, which is about to be released by Adroit Publishers. His chapter is titled, “Militarization vs. Weaponization: Evolving Military Involvement in Space.” https://campus.und.edu/directory/david.kugler
Preeti Nair attended IPELS-16 & ISSS-15
Categories: Space Studies
Masters student Preeti Nair attended IPELS-16 (Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in the Laboratory and in Space) and ISSS-15 (International School/Symposium for Space Simulations) at the prestigious Max Planck Institute in Garching, Germany. She gained valuable insights into plasma experiments, space simulation, and nuclear fusion. She also visited the FRM-2 research reactor facility, broadening her understanding […]
NASA has released a tentative schedule for the NASA EPSCoR CAN solicitations for the 2024 – 2025 academic year. This schedule also includes the ND NASA EPSCoR internal RID request for proposals. The ND NASA EPSCoR Tentative Schedule for pre-proposals, reviews, selections, and full proposal submission is as follows (schedule is subject to change): Program […]
Dr. Francisco Del Canto Viterale’s article was published this past summer. The article is “Global Governance of the Space System: A Multilevel Governance Analysis” in Systems, Volume 12, Issue 9. Systems is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal.
Dr. Francisco Del Canto Viterale and Dr. Marco Fernández Tous published in Journal Astropolitics.Journal
Categories: Space Studies
Dr. Francisco Del Canto Viterale and Dr. Marco Fernández Tous coauthored an article titled “Electric Propulsion in Space: Technology and Geopolitics,” which was published in the Journal Astropolitics and is available online.