Scott Palo News

  • Renderings of the SWARM-EX satellite.
    Scott Palo is leading a multi-university effort to unlock a scientific mystery in near-Earth space. He is leading a team that has earned a $4 million, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation's Ideas Lab to design and build three CubeSat nanosatellites to investigate the...
  • Steve Jolly and Scott Palo
    Congratulations to Steve Jolly and Scott Palo for being recognized with 2019 College of Engineering and Applied Science Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards (DEAA). DEAA honors graduates and friends who have distinguished themselves through
  • The US Capitol and a CAD drawing of CU-E3.
    The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder Earth Escape Explorer (CU-E3) cube satellite team is in Washington, DC, this week for Technology Day on the Hill, an annual event demonstrating aerospace technology to members of Congress and their staffs.
  • CU Boulder Professor Xinlin Li holds up a model of the CSSWE cube satellite that studied energetic particles in Earth's magnetosphere. The new CIRBE cube satellite will build on the success of the CSSWE. Photo: LASP
    A NASA-funded cube satellite built and operated by CU Boulder researchers will study the inner radiation belt of Earth’s magnetosphere, providing new insight into the energetic particles that can disrupt satellites and threaten spacewalking
  • Team MAXWELL group photo.
    The MAXWELL cubesat, a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder Smead Aerospace graduate project, has been selected as a winner in the Air Force University Nanosatellite Program Flight Selection Review.  Ten university teams were competing for two
  • Aaron Aboaf and Luke Bury
    ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder aerospace students Aaron Aboaf and Luke Bury are being recognized as "Tomorrow's Engineering Leaders: The 20 Twenties," an annual awards program from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' and
  • The ribbon cutting.
    The Space and Missile Systems Center’s Remote Sensing Systems Directorate (RS) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony today to unveil the addition of an unclassified development environment to the existing Tools, Applications, and Processing (TAP) Lab.
  • Ben Fried at the NASA check presentation.
    A ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder student satellite team has won a free ride to space. NASA announced last week that CU Boulder’s Earth Escape Explorer (CU-E3) is one of three national winners in the space agency’s Cube Quest Challenge small
  • Assembling the prototype.
    The shoebox-size CU Earth Escape Explorer (CU-E3) is being assembled by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Science Graduate Projects Class. CU-E3 is designed for a communications technology demonstration mission, slated to
  • Challenger deployed from ISS.
    CU Boulder's QB50 CubeSat, named "Challenger," was successfully deployed from the International Space Station last night at 11:25 PM MDT.</p><p>The release coming just over a month after the satellite was launched from Cape Canveral to the ISS. Challenger is a nano-satellite, about the size of a loaf of bread, and was designed and built by students working under the direction of aerospace faculty.
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