space
Making Air Travel Safer
The UW devises a tool to detect fog and low-lying clouds.
Folding Up the James Webb Telescope
A Badger prepares the powerful instrument for its journey into space.
New Journey for UW Space Telescope
The campus treasure is headed to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
One Little Problem with 5G Cellular Networks
They might interfere with weather forecasting.
Lost in Space
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.
A Search for Simple Life
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.
Laurel Clark ’83, MD’87
A remembrance of the Columbia astronaut.
6 Badgers in Space
Suomi NPP satellite
Named after Verner Suomi, who founded the UW’s renowned Space Science and Engineering Center in 1965 and is……
Let’s Eat Out
We’re right at the dawn of space agriculture.
Big Red Landing
An alumnus journeys from Madison to Mars.