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Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
4-axis CNC lathe with live tooling in the AERO 155 machine shop (primarily for metals); listed in the equipment list without further specs.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
NASA-funded Smead/LASP CubeSat imaging energetic X-rays to study electrons precipitating from the Van Allen radiation belts and their effect on atmospheric ozone; launched Mar. 30, 2026 on SpaceX Transporter 16; in service since May 13,…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
What customers of AES Graduate Projects must provide: a responsive contact person, availability for meetings and teleconferences, timely feedback on requirements and design documents, attendance at design reviews (up to two hours), and…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
AMReC (formerly the Center for Aerospace Structures, founded 1986) develops analytical models and experiments for next-generation aerospace structures, known for multi-physics modeling and structural optimization and for large deployable…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Intellectual Property
Balloon-borne instrument measuring stratospheric turbulence during slow descent, with onboard data compression, telemetry to a ground station, self-calibration and turbulence-parameter extraction; AFRL-supported (HYFLITS project). Inventor…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
AVS Lab astrodynamics simulation framework for spacecraft guidance, dynamics and control, installable from PyPI (bsk wheels, with MuJoCo and optional optical navigation) or buildable from source with C++ modules; container images on GHCR…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
Python package (Basilisk + reinforcement learning) for building Gymnasium environments for spacecraft tasking problems on top of the Basilisk simulator; developed by the AVS Lab at CU Boulder.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
Self-contained Python wheel giving external projects what they need to build Basilisk-compatible SWIG extensions (C/C++, Rust, Numba and Python modules) without vendoring the full simulator, with CMake helpers and an ABI/version…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
Open-source Unity project for Vizard, the companion 3D visualization app for Basilisk simulations (spacecraft, celestial bodies, actuators, instruments, orbit lines, pointing vectors, keep-out cones), buildable for macOS, Windows and…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Bambu Lab X1C Carbon Combo 3D Printer (x5) in the PILOT (AERO 141) rapid-prototyping area; Print size 256 × 256 × 256 mm; 5 units; pay for printing; use by special request.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Bambu Labs H2S in the PILOT (AERO 141) rapid-prototyping area; Print size 340 × 320 × 340 mm; pay for printing; use by special request.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
CU bioastronautics program site: study and support of life in space, covering human and organism biology in spaceflight and the design of payloads, spacecraft habitats and life support systems, tied to BioServe Space Technologies (biotech…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Intellectual Property
Electron gun that uses light sources and the photoelectric effect inside a series of differentially charged stages to emit a field-focused beam with two or more tunable electron energies. Inventors Wilson, Bengtson, Schaub, Turpen;…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Michael M. Byram Distinguished Visiting Professorship (since 2018): an internationally renowned researcher spends one or two semesters a year in the department with travel, lodging and living support, giving seminars, mentoring and…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
NSF-funded Smead CubeSat mapping how VLF energy from lightning and ground transmitters reaches space; launched Apr. 7, 2026 on USSF STP-S29A from Vandenberg; in service; PI Robert Marshall.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
NASA-funded inner radiation belt CubeSat making fine-grain Van Allen belt measurements; launched Apr. 15, 2023 on Transporter 7 (SpaceX F9), mission success, deorbited Oct. 4, 2024; PI Xinlin Li.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Intellectual Property
Electric field mill with a rotor/shaft grounding path through a bearing packed with conductive grease, a removable bearing washer, peak-detection digital signal processing, and a GPS-disciplined sampling clock with cellular connectivity…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
CU Scholar dataset for two tests: a static-target test with raw files from Google Pixel 6 smartphones and a dynamic drone test with two .mat files generated from raw smartphone data, plus MATLAB scripts that compute the solutions (Ryan,…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Compact spaceborne magnetic observatory CubeSat (Smead, LASP, CIRES) for efficient high-resolution magnetic-field data; launched Mar. 30, 2026 on SpaceX Transporter 16; funded via the NGA MagQuest Competition and a CU Boulder Grand…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment CubeSat studying links between solar flares and energetic particles; launched 9/13/2012 on NASA ELaNa VI, operated to 12/22/2014 (mission success); 20 peer-reviewed papers and 3 PhDs; PI Xinlin Li;…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
Dataset (via Globus, stored on CU Research Computing PetaLibrary) supporting a paper on the CU team's DARPA SubT Challenge system: an independent single-agent autonomy stack on quadruped and wheeled robots with mission management over a…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Professor (RECUV, CCAR) and director of the RF & SatNav lab; research in RF signal processing, RF interference, integrated navigation systems and VHF modulation; ION Fellow (2022) and Thurlow Award (2009).
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
AES electronics shop with data acquisition and sensors, ICs, advanced soldering, pick-and-place, a reflow oven, specialized power supplies and oscilloscopes; workshops via Aeroportal.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Epilog Fusion M2 - Laser Cutter in the PILOT (AERO 141) rapid-prototyping area; Bed size 812 × 508 mm; bring your own material; use by special request.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
Spreadsheet of Mars upper-atmosphere densities measured by the ExoMars TGO accelerometer during aerobraking (from 8 Sept 2017), with altitude, local solar time, latitude/longitude, MarsGRAM05 model densities, 5 s and 40 s-smoothed measured…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
Figure data (data.zip) for a JGR-Planets paper by D. J. Scheeres on how particle ejection contributes to the rotational acceleration and orbit evolution of asteroid Bennu; the landing page has no abstract.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Formlabs - Resin/UV 3D printer (x1) in the PILOT (AERO 141) rapid-prototyping area; Print size 145 × 145 × 185 mm; 1 unit; pay for printing; use by special request.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Distinguished Professor and Glenn Murphy Endowed Chair (CCAR), NAE member (2025); research in orbital mechanics, relative motion and attitude dynamics and control, charged astrodynamics, astrodynamics simulation software and autonomous…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Intellectual Property
Localizes radio-frequency interference (RFI) emitters that disrupt GNSS receivers by fusing location estimates from two or more localization techniques for better accuracy than any single method. Inventors Akos, Blay, Shivaramaiah;…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Distinguished Professor and Helen and Hubert Croft Professor (CCAR; Space Weather Technology, Research and Education Center); research on GNSS receiver technology for navigation in challenging environments and remote sensing of the…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Smaller LifeLAB thermal vacuum chamber, donated by Sierra Nevada Corporation, for small-scale testing of spaceflight components; cools to about −190 °C, reaches 2×10⁻⁶ torr, 3–4 h experiment cycle; used to study lunar dust effects on…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Prof. Robert Marshall's LAIR group (people page): research staff and students building electronics and mechanical systems for CubeSats (CANVAS, COSMO, AEPEX), VLF and ground-sensor campaigns (VIPER, AVID), particle-precipitation modeling…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
AES machine shops: AERO 155 for metals (CNC knee and vertical mills, 4-axis CNC lathe, welding, brazing, hazardous testing room AERO 169) and AERO 152 for wood and composites (lay-up area, composites oven, paint and sanding booths, powder…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Joseph T. Negler Professor and Hatfield Endowed Professor in Space Policy & Law (CCAR); research in space situational awareness, information theory, estimation, optimal control, reachability and decision theory, autonomy and robotics.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
MarkForged- Composite 3D printer (x1) in the PILOT (AERO 141) rapid-prototyping area; Print size 320 × 132 × 152 mm; 1 unit; pay for printing; use by special request.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Smead/LASP CubeSat to demonstrate high-rate X-band communications in deep space; launch mid-2026; PI Scott Palo; US Air Force funded, winner of the Air Force University Nanosatellite Program UNP-9 competition; partners include Blue Canyon…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Miniature X-ray solar spectrometer CubeSat measuring the soft X-ray spectrum from 0.4 to 30 keV with <0.15 keV FWHM resolution; launched 12/6/2015 (ULA/Orbital-ATK OA-4), operated 2016–2017, deorbited 5/6/2017; PI Tom Woods; NSF and NASA…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
Two-line-element orbital data for cataloged objects between 200 and 650 km, with MSISE00 density ratios between Kp=1 and Kp=6- conditions, B* statistics and orbital track error after 1.5, 3, 18 and 72 hours; associated with the article…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Practical Innovation Through Learning, Observation and Teaching lab: student workstations with power supplies, multimeters and oscilloscopes and coursework software (MATLAB, SolidWorks, Altium, STK, ANSYS), rapid-prototyping printers and a…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
CubeSat demonstrating atmospheric sounding and polar sea-ice/ice-free-ocean detection and mapping, built on the ALL-STAR CubeSat bus with Colorado Space Grant, CET and NSIDC; launched January 18, 2021 on LauncherOne from Mojave Air and…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
US-01 CubeSat in the Von Karman Institute's multi-nation QB50 initiative, making multi-point measurements of the mid-lower thermosphere; launched 4/18/2017 on Orbital ATK CRS-7, mission success, deorbited 8/12/2018; PI Scott Palo; NSF…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Prof. Dennis Akos's lab (est. 2005) researching software-defined radio for satellite-navigation receivers across GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou and augmentation systems, focusing on robust high-integrity GNSS, specialized receiver…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Larger LifeLAB chamber (about an order of magnitude bigger than JANA) for testing larger components such as a full-scale EVA-suit radiator; pumps down to vacuum but currently lacks thermal control.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Smead CubeSat to demonstrate path-diagnostic radio and laser communications that would let satellite communications be automated; AFRL University Nanosatellite Program funding (2021); launch TBA; PI Scott Palo.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
RECUV: a university–government–industry partnership developing uncrewed vehicle systems for science, commercial use, disaster mitigation, security and defense, with a 12-type uncrewed-aircraft fleet, FAA-approved airspace over 500,000 sq…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Prof. Jade Morton's lab developing next-generation GNSS receiver and radio-based sensor technologies; runs a global network of GNSS receivers and RF data recorders monitoring space-weather effects, with RF test equipment, RTK receivers and…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Victor Charles Schelke Endowed Professor (CCAR) and PI on several CU CubeSats; research on design, build and operation of small satellite systems, remote sensing of the thermosphere and ionosphere, meteor radar, and Arctic/Antarctic UAS…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Intellectual Property
Dynamically configured antenna module for dual- or multi-frequency GNSS receivers that detects RFI saturation with a power detector and uses control logic to isolate an unsaturated frequency for positioning. Inventors Akos, Shivaramaiah,…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Industry sponsorship of the required two-semester senior capstone design course (~300 students in seven faculty-led sections): sponsors contribute $15,000 (revenue >$1M) or $5,000 to a central fund, may attend design reviews and serve as…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
Data-publication entry on the SeNSe Lab site: a portion of the data (first ten days of January 2016) from one SeNSe Lab receiver at Poker Flat Research Range, used in the paper "Stochastic TEC Structure Characterization" (Rino, Morton,…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Three-CubeSat NSF Ideas Lab constellation led by CU Boulder with five other universities to study how charged and neutral particles interact in the thermosphere; launch Dec. 2026 on ELaNa 59; PI Scott Palo.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
LifeLAB's two thermal vacuum chambers for testing spacecraft components in a simulated space environment: JANA (small, pump-down and thermal control) and RALPHEE (about ten times larger, vacuum only).
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Partnership letting students earn a CU Boulder bachelor's in aerospace engineering entirely on the Western Slope: first two years taught by Western Colorado University faculty, last two by CU Boulder faculty based full-time in Gunnison,…