Space Weather Technology, Research and Education Center
A new center led by CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø will undertake research to make the region of space between Earth and the moon a little safer—potentially helping satellites navigate through this tumultuous and sometimes hazardous environment.Ìý This summer,
Luis Navarro is pushing the forefront of research in Earth’s extreme upper atmosphere to answer important and complex scientific questions. Navarro, a research scientist in the Space Weather Technology, Research and Education Center (SWx TREC) at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø, has earned a four-year, $700,000 NASA Heliophysics grant to...
Yang Wang is leading a unique study harnessing satellite data to study how solar activity affects a poorly understood region of Earth’s upper atmosphere. Wang, a visiting faculty member in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and a 2021 graduate of CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø’s aerospace PhD program, has earned a...