Asteroids Laboratory

03/09/2024

It's International Women's Day! At Asteroids Laboratory, women team members are leading the way in a multitude of research thrusts including terrariums and Lunar Ark concept, to inflatable rovers and extreme environment robotics!

12/17/2022

UA SpaceTREx student-led Techbriefs Create the Future Entry on Spacecraft Swarms was recognized as a "Top 100" Entry among all categories. It was the only swarm entry to have been recognized. Thanks, to Athip, the Docking Team, Dr. Leonard Vance and EACD. Follow link to learn more about our entry:

https://lnkd.in/gwkACFHj

03/07/2022

It was a fantastic AAS GNC Conference 2022 in Breckenridge, CO. UA SpaceTREx/ASTEROIDS personnel made 8 oral and poster presentations. We are proud to have had many first-time presenters including UREP student Anna Dinkel who presented on spacecraft docking! Our other first-time presenters include senior undergrad researcher Joshua Smith, Michael Debbins and Viru Vilvanathan and graduate Bailey Nichols. Our PhD and graduate students did an awesome job as always in presenting and organizing the trip, this includes Leonard Vance, Athip Thirupathi Raj, Alvaro Diaz-Flores and Massimo Biella.

02/03/2022

The incredible work of several ASTEROIDS students and faculty is being presented at the 2022 American Astronautical Society conference, beginning today and running through February 9th. Best of luck to those presenting!

01/04/2022

Despite the challenges of Covid-19, ASTEROIDS Laboratory had a banner year, with a record number of publications, record number of awards and distinctions, out of this world media publicity and a student team that beat all expectations! Here are some of the notable achievements made in 2021.🎉

12/06/2021

Check out tonight's new story on KOLD 13 by Shaley Sanders, on our efforts to build permanent settlements on the Moon and create a second home.

12/03/2021

You are cordially invited to attend our Fall Research Symposium! This event highlights the work of our incredible students. Today, Dec 3, from 3-6pm, and Saturday, Dec 4, from 9-11:30am.

Zoom link in bio!

09/24/2021

Congratulations to Robert Peralta, one of our ASTEROIDS UREP alumni from the class of 2020 for being inducted into the Astronaut Scholars Program 2021!

https://news.engineering.arizona.edu/news/polyglot-engineering-student-lands-astronaut-scholarship?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=peralta

09/12/2021

The recent article about Dr. Momayez and Dr. Thanga on lunar mining/base preparation grant is on Newsweek!

Scientists hope the robots will be able to function autonomously, and collaborate with one another.

09/11/2021

08/05/2021

Lunar Ark featured on Arizona Engineer Magazine, Summer Edition. A shoutout to the team continuing to make steady progress to identify and advance component technologies. Thanks to Emily and the College of Engineering for communicating the technology concept!

Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get them in front of Issuu’s millions of monthly readers. Title: Arizona Engineer | Summer 2021 | Experiential Learning Issue, Author: ...

05/05/2021

Video Montage of Research at ASTEROIDS Laboratory, in celebration of 10 years of ISSC and Star Wars Day 2021. May the 4th be with you!

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