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This mission, named the Kentucky Re-Entry Probe Experiment (KREPE), successfully gathered heat shield data with capsules built by UK College of Engineering students and faculty, with funding from NASA, NASA ESPCoR and the NASA Kentucky Space Grant Consortium and EPSCoR Programs.

Two professors from The University of New Mexico, including Hua Guo and Wirt Wills, were elected recently by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to the newest class of AAAS Fellows. The 2021 class of AAAS Fellows includes 564...

“Together, we will develop game-changing capabilities through the use of high-fidelity, validated physics models." Researchers at the University of Kentucky are working with NASA to advance key technologies for exploring the moon, Mars and beyond.

Entry, descent, and landing technologies are critical to placing large payloads on other planets such as Mars. As a spacecraft enters an atmosphere of a planet such as Earth or Mars, collisions with the atmospheric atoms and molecules generate very high temperature in the leading edge of the entry vehicle. To protect from the extreme heat, it is necessary to cover the vehicle with a thermal protection system, which consists of lightweight tiles that resist heat. Accurate modeling and simulation...

CU Boulder Leads $15 Million NASA Project To Better Protect Spacecraft CBS Denver 2 days ago Syndicated Local – CBS Denver BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) – Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder will lead a new $15 million NASA project focused on protecting spacecraft. Research through the Advanced Computational Center for Entry System Simulation will explore how engineers can shield space capsules as they enter atmospheres at speeds of up to 17,000 miles per hour. �...

BOULDER — Researchers at the University of Colorado will head up the new $15-million, five-year NASA Advanced Computational Center for Entry System Simulation project, which seeks to “improve entry, descent and landing technologies for exploring other planets,” according to a CU news release.  The project is led by CU engineering professor Iain Boyd and involves partners at the University of Illinois, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, University of Kentucky and the University of New M...