13 December 2019
NASA selects Nightingale site for asteroid sample collection
... and mission assurance for OSIRIS-REx. Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona, Tucson, is the principal investigator, and the University of Arizona also leads the science team and the mission’s science observation planning and data processing...
19 June 2020
US firm offers flights to edge-of-space under high-tech balloon
...to September 1994. Despite financial uncertainties and issues regarding management of the facility, the huge glass and steel-frame structure is now owned by the University of Arizona, and conducts a number of scientific experiments centred around its...
November 2017
Roving the red planet
... in Boulder, Colorado. He has a BA in Geology from Franklin & Marshall College and a MS and PhD in the Geosciences from the University of Arizona. Dr Farrand has been a Participating Scientist on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission since 2002...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Arizona and studied international and comparative law at the Hebrew University at Mt Scopus, Jerusalem. Leslie served as a Commissioner on the Arizona Space Commission from 1994 to 2000 and...
24 January 2022
Solar sail mission will intercept and study small asteroid
... JPL. “It is a chance to study a class of asteroid that we currently know very little about.” The asteroid 2020 GE was first observed on 12 March 2020 by the University of Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey as part of its search for near-Earth objects for...
02 March 2018
Light from the Universe’s first stars detected
...this minuscule signal has opened a new window on the early universe," says astronomer Judd Bowman of the University of Arizona, the lead investigator on the project. It has long been suspected that the first stars would be massive and therefore short...
