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A plasma wind tunnel being built in Colorado will help test new ideas about navigating hypersonic vehicles in harsh conditions. On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia was carrying seven astronauts back to Earth after they finished work

Three faculty members from the CU Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science are conducting projects awarded through the U.S. Department of Defense’s Multidisciplinary ³Ô¹ÏÍø Research Initiative (MURI) Program.  The highly

Robyn Macdonald is pushing the limits of hypersonic research with a new NASA grant.Macdonald, an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder, has

This year, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) celebrates its 75th anniversary—marking 75 years of CU Boulder’s exploration of space, from the fringes of Earth’s atmosphere to the wide expanse of interstellar space. The

Sanghamitra Neogi has earned a key Department of Defense contract to tackle a big problem with tiny electronics: microchips crippled by heat. An assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder, Neogi is leading a multi-university research team to...

The sounds of construction permeate the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder. The bang of hammers. The wail of electric saws. A new laboratory for a plasma wind tunnel is taking shape. The project is the vision of...

Iain Boyd was interviewed for a new article in Popular Mechanics on efforts to track hypersonic weapons. At issue? Hypersonic weapons often travel at fast enough speeds to generate a sheath of plasma, which can obscure them to radar. Traditional

Robyn Macdonald is an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at CU Boulder. Her research interests include hypersonic flows, computation of chemically reacting flows, chemical kinetics, and radiation

Hisham Ali is pushing the limits of plasma physics and hypersonics in his lab on campus to advance a nationally important area of science and engineering. Ali, an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering

Sanghamitra Neogi is designing new materials at the quantum level to realize future technologies for thermal management and harsh environments like hypersonic flight. An assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace