ASU Space Grant Success Stories

NASA Space Grant Intern Xeynab Mouti has worked in the Center for Meteorite Studies since 2019.

ASU Space Grant Intern, Xeynab Mouti, featured in ASU News "Researcher Spotlight"!

Xeynab says of the Space Grant Program: "The skills and experience gained have set me on a path to study what I truly love and am passionate about."

Velos team working together.

ASU VELOS Team Finalist in NASA Big Idea Challenge

VELOS, short for Variable Exploratory Lunar Observation System, is a specially designed launcher and probe system. The VELOS team was one of eight awardees for the NASA Big Idea Challenge in Spring 2020.

Elinor Saur in graduation cap and sash, posing outside by flowers.

ASU Space Grant Intern, Elinor Sauer, awarded Dean's Medalist

"Without the space grant I am not sure I would have had the courage to reach out and find my mentor, and I certainly would have missed out on meeting some really interesting people in a wide array of majors...It ended up being the perfect mix of independent research and community, and I have no doubt the skills I gained will be very helpful after I graduate.”

Sarah Smallhouse portrait.

Former ASU Intern, Sarah Smallwood, featured in NASA Women's History Month Article!

Find out what this AY14-15 ASU intern works on now and who inspired her along the way.

ASU Phoenix CubeSat team at launch (front, left to right): Nicholas Altman, Sarah Rogers and Ryan Fagan. (Back, left to right): Devon Bautista, Craig Knoblauch, Trevor Bautista and Raymond Barakat. Trevor Bautista/ASU

ASU Space Grant students launch CubeSat to study urban heat island effect

The Arizona State University-led Phoenix CubeSat was launched into space onboard the Antares II rocket from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a Cygnus resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

© Source: ASU Student scientists of ASU created a special satellite that can eventually help track things like a city’s thermal temperature and climate change.

Congratulations to ASU Intern Sarah Rogers and the Phoenix CubeSat Team, who will be launching their "Phoenix" satellite into space this Fall!

Standing only a foot tall, the cubed shaped, shiny satellite could be the future to understanding temperature and climate on earth.

Portrait of Lily Whitler

Congratulations to ASU/AZ Space Grant Intern, Lily Whitler, recipient of a Goldwater Scholarship for Excellence!

Whitler is a junior majoring in physics and math, working in ASU's Low Frequency Cosmology Lab.

Portrait of Gabriela Huckabee

ASU Space Grant Intern, Gabriela Huckabee, discusses her research and upcoming graduation!

Huckabee will graduate from Arizona State University on May 7 with a Bachelor of Science degree in astrophysics with honors from Barrett, The Honors College, and the Dean’s Medal from the School of Earth and Space Exploration. She completed her degree in three years.

Portrait of Alexa Drew

ASU Graduate, Alexa Drew, to Assist ASU Space Grant before Graduate School

2017-19 ASU NASA Space Grant intern, Alexa Drew, will graduate this May from the School of Earth and Space Exploration. Drew will be assisting the ASU Space Grant Program before starting graduate school in the future.

See more success stories on ASU Space Grant's website.