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UA Student-led CatSat Mission Selected by NASA

Air Force Research Lab, Others Tap UA Space Expertise

With a total of $6.65 million in new funding, UA experts in space situational awareness are improving the nation's ability to identify and monitor satellites in collaboration with international allies.

Optical Sciences Student to Japan for Space Mission Work

Goldwater Scholarship winner Adriana Mitchell of the UA will assist on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 project, an asteroid sample return mission that is similar to the UA-led OSIRIS-REx mission by NASA.

Congratulations to 2017 AZ Space Grant Intern, Adriana Mitchell, Barry Goldwater Scholarship Awardee!

Congratulations to 2016 AZ Space Grant Intern, Allison McGraw, winner of the 2017 Dwornik Award!

UA Researchers Track Chinese Space Station as It Falls

As Chinese space station Tiangong-1 falls to Earth, UA astronomer Vishnu Reddy and aerospace engineering graduate student Tanner Campbell are following its path using technology they developed in four months — and with less than $2,000.

Rapid Detection and Recovery: The Science of Hunting Meteorites

RADARMET is led by Vishnu Reddy, assistant professor in the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. He procured funding from NASA to operate RADARMET, which uses National Weather Service Doppler radar data and computer models to locate meteorites within hours of their fall.

UA Students Participate in First Global Planetary Defense Exercise

Students were part of a drill that tested astronomers' ability to respond to a highly unlikely — but not impossible — scenario: an asteroid on course to collide with Earth.

Allison McGraw Interns at The National Academies of Sciences!

Congratulations to Allison McGraw, 2016 UA Space Grant Intern and May graduate, for receiving a Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Graduate Internship award with the Space Studies Board at The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in Washington, D.C. for the fall 2017 season. 

Earth's New Traveling Buddy is Definitely an Asteroid, not Space Junk

At the 49th Annual Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting in Provo, Utah, astronomers led by Vishnu Reddy at the University of Arizona confirm true nature of one of Earth's companions on its journey around the sun.