Space Science

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  • lunacats at kennedy space center
    - LunaCats Rocket to Third Place in NASA Competition
    The 2013 UNH LunaCats team at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. L-R: Front row: James Clifford, Jonathan Shepard, Anthony Edmonds, Caleigh MacPherson, Jonathan Wilson; back row... Read More
  • Josh Chabot '13 and his adviser, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering May-Win Thein
    - From Manchester to the Moon
    Josh Chabot '13 and his adviser, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering May-Win Thein, pose with the fruit of three years' labor: a tabletop NASA satellite simulator that... Read More
  • interstellar gas clouds around the solar system
    - IBEX: The Little Satellite That Could
    This image shows the nearest interstellar gas clouds around the solar system, including the Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC) and G Cloud, along with positions of neighboring stars... Read More
  • solar orbiter satellite
    - In the Hot Seat
    The Solar Orbiter mission, with a UNH instrument on board, will use a series of gravitational slingshots around Venus to get closer to the sun than ever before. Read More
  • University of New Hampshire
    - UNH Highlights
    UNH Named One of Sierra Magazine’s Top “Coolest Schools” The University of New Hampshire made the top 10 list of campuses in Sierra magazine’s sixth annual ranking of the nation’s... Read More
  • satellite orbiting earth
    - Tightening the Scientific Understanding of the Belts
    More than a dozen years in the making, the twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes will rocket into the harsh environment of Earth's Van Allen radiation belts to probe their inner... Read More
  • University of New Hampshire welcome sign
    - Cosmic Rays Alter Chemistry of Lunar Ice
    Artist's illustration of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. CRaTER is the instrument center-mounted at the bottom of LRO. Illustration by Chris Meaney/NASA Space scientists... Read More
  • UNH space science researcher
    - IBEX Team, UNH Scientist Present Mission Findings at NASA Press Conference
    Eberhard Möbius Space scientists, including researchers from UNH, have described the first detailed analyses of samples of captured interstellar neutral atoms – raw... Read More