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 ...
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...
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...
Marsbee mission gets a little more real thanks to systems engineering
Jan 08, 2019
When Shahrom Doneshwar first learned about the NASA-funded plan to explore the surface of Mars using robotic bees, he says he "didn’t even know that it was possible!" Now, however, the master’s candidate in the Department of Industrial & Sy...
Dr. Gary Zank Talks Parker Solar Mission
Jan 07, 2019
Dr. Gary Zank - Program Director for the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research - recently sat down with WHNT's Steve Johnson to discuss the Parker Solar Mission. See the interview here: https://whnt.com/2018/12/30/uah-space-science-...
NSF EPSCoR and UAH CSPAR director to address NSF as distinguished speaker
Sep 14, 2018
Dr. Gary Zank, NSF EPSCoR CPU2AL director, director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and chair of the Department of Space Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), will speak on three current space mission...
Confirmed: Solar Wind Shock Wave Gives Ions a Push
Sep 12, 2018
Measurements made by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show that shock waves in the solar wind transfer significant energy to ionized interstellar atoms, confirming a decades-old prediction made by our very own Dr. Gary Zank. See the full story here...
Proposal for interstellar mapping probe awarded $496 million grant by NASA
Jul 19, 2018
A team of astrophysicists that includes Dr. Gary Zank, chair of the Department of Space Science and the director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been awarded $496 million b...
NESSF award funds student’s research into extreme space weather
Jun 18, 2018
Talwinder Singh, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Space Science at UAH, has been awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) for the 2018/2019 academic year. His proposal, entitled "Modeling Coronal Mass Ejections in the Solar W...
UAH researchers receive NASA Space Flight Awareness Team Award
May 17, 2018
On the morning of August 17, 2017, Rachel Hamburg, a master’s student in the Department of Space Science at UAH, received a text message from a fellow graduate student at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). "He told me...