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Solar Orbiter

UAH and Zank prep for massive data stream following coming launch of ESA Solar Orbiter

Feb 04, 2020

UAH will have a major role in exploring an expected massive data stream that will follow launch of the European Space Agency (ESA) Solar Orbiter, a mission that will fly over the sun’s poles and on which UAH’s Dr. Gary Zank is a co-primary inve...


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CPU2AL now accepting internship applications

Jan 09, 2020

Applications for internship programs are now being accepted by the National Science Foundation funded EPSCoR Project Connecting the Plasma Universe to Plasma Technology in Alabama (CPU2AL), which is headquartered at UAH. ...


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First Parker Solar Probe scientific papers are published in Nature

Dec 04, 2019

The first published science from the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instruments aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) poses "a major challenge to our understanding of the dynamics of the near-sun solar wind," according to a lead...


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UAH part of Parker Solar Probe team receiving NASA Silver Achievement Medal

Nov 08, 2019

The Parker Solar Probe (PSP) Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) team at UAH is part of the entire PSP team that will receive the NASA Silver Achievement Medal on Nov. 12 in Parsons Auditorium of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Phy...


NASA’s MMS Finds First Interplanetary Shock

NASA’s MMS Finds First Interplanetary Shock

Aug 13, 2019

The Magnetospheric Multiscale mission has found it's first interplanetary shock. NASA posted an informative article about the discovery here. The event and results were recently published in a paper co-authored by CSPAR's Dr. Gary Zank  in ...


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UAH to host 50th anniversary lunar landing events: Fireworks show will highlight week’s activities

Jul 01, 2019

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will host a variety of events and activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 landing on the moon. UAH has played a key role in America’s space program since Marshall Space ...


Shooting for the Moon: UAH M. Louis Salmon Library awarded Recordings at Risk grant

Shooting for the Moon: UAH M. Louis Salmon Library awarded Recordings at Risk grant

May 20, 2019

The UAH M. Louis Salmon Library Archives and Special Collections has been awarded a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Recordings as Risk Grant. UAH was the only Alabama institution selected to receive the award in the fifth grant ...


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Parisa Mostafavi Awarded UAH College of Science Graduate Research Award

Apr 15, 2019

On April 9th, Parisa Mostafavi was awarded the UAH College of Science Graduate Research Award at the 2019 Honors Day. The Graduate Research Award is given to an outstanding graduate student who has conducted leading edge research, published papers in...


UAH scientists getting first look at  trove of data from Parker Solar Probe

UAH scientists getting first look at trove of data from Parker Solar Probe

Mar 07, 2019

Now orbiting the sun, the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) is streaming an incredibly large amount of data from the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instrument suite to NASA and then to The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), where th...


Alabama Space Grant Consortium to build first collaborative CubeSat

Alabama Space Grant Consortium to build first collaborative CubeSat

Feb 27, 2019

An effort by Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) members to design and build the first in a planned series of statewide collaborative cube satellites (CubeSats) will be the focus of a workshop Nov. 9 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Educator Training F...


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