Space Science Center
Tiny Satellite Built by UNH Students Blasts Off to Space
When the Falcon 9 rocket blasted off the day after Thanksgiving, it carried with it years of hard work — and the hopes and dreams — of 26 UNH undergraduate students who built a miniature satellite to study the sun and its effects on space weather. A UNH-led student collaboration with NASA’s... Read More
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09/24/25Two UNH Space Weather Instruments Blast Off Toward the Sun
After years in the making, two UNH space weather instruments have blasted off toward the sun to study its influence on our solar system and monitor... -
08/26/25In Memoriam: Eric Lund
Eric Lund, a UNH research scientist who recently passed away, is being remembered as a dedicated space scientist and valued colleague. -
07/23/25Closing the Gap in a Global Space Weather Monitoring System
UNH students and researchers help bring neutron monitor back online in Maui, filling a crucial gap in the global space weather monitoring system.
Recent Stories
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05/12/16 - Magnetic ReconnectionOn October 16, 2015, dozens of UNH scientists, space physics researchers, engineers and students made history. Read More -
07/23/15 - Riding HighProject SMART high school students steady their scientific balloon as it fills with helium prior to launch. (Photo: Devin Thomas, University of British Columbia) Near space is... Read More -
03/05/15 - For These UNH Students, It Is Rocket ScienceLong before it blasts into space March 12, the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will have launched the careers of would-be rocket scientists who contributed to the mission... Read More -
03/05/15 - Space QuartetTen years ago, UNH physics professor Roy Torbert knew that when the university’s Space Science Center (SSC) was awarded a very large role in NASA’s ambitious, four-spacecraft... Read More -
07/25/13 - Heavenly Science: Student Balloons Video Earth Below, Space AboveOn Thursday, July 17, 2013, high school students and their University of New Hampshire Project SMART mentors successfully flew twin weather balloons that carried... Read More -
12/13/12 - In the Hot SeatThe 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 -
08/23/12 - Tightening the Scientific Understanding of the BeltsMore 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