The UW devises a tool to detect fog and low-lying clouds.
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A Badger prepares the powerful instrument for its journey into space.
The campus treasure is headed to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
They might interfere with weather forecasting.
It’s getting mighty crowded in space as debris from satellites, labs, and other things shot into Earth’s orbit degrade over time and threaten to fall back to where they came from.
Adam Steltzner PhD’99 just wanted a regular job, so he became an engineer — eventually, one of NASA’s top engineers. Now he’s helping lead the search for life on Mars.
Suomi NPP satellite
Named after Verner Suomi, who founded the UW’s renowned Space Science and Engineering Center in 1965 and is often called the father of satellite meteorology…
