Space Grant Success Stories

Launch countdown begins! Photo by Arsh Nadkarni.

NASA Selects Proposals for Student Aeronautics, Space Projects

Arizona Space Grant's ASCEND balloon-satellite launch program featured on NASA.gov's latest stories as National Space Grant Program celebrates its 30th Anniversary!

Credit: International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration / Georgia Tech-Schmidt / Dichek ITGC researchers Britney Schmidt and Andy Mullen retrieve the robotic submarine Icefin after its last dive to the seafloor foundations of Thwaites Glacier. Icefin was engineered in Schmidt's lab at Georgia Tech.

Check out current research by 2003 UA Space Grant Intern, Britney Schmidt, on robotic submarines!

An underwater vehicle from the Georgia Institute of Technology makes its first-ever visit to Thwaites Glacier’s grounding zone as part of the historic International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration.

Nabila Huq and Derek Vardon in research lab

2011 UA/NASA Space Grant Intern, Nabila Huq (right), now researches potential bioblendstock for diesel fuel

A novel oxygenate molecule that can be produced from biomass shows promise for use as a blend for diesel fuel, according to researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

iShowcase Demo of VR glasses

UA/NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellow, Charles Parrish, at iShowcase

UA/NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellow, Charles Parrish, demoes a component of his Space Grant Outreach Fellowship work on accessible, immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences.

An artist's conception showing spherical carbon molecules known as buckyballs coming out from a planetary nebula — material shed by a dying star. Researchers at the University of Arizona have now created these molecules under laboratory conditions thought to mimic those in their "natural" habitat in space. (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

2019-20 UA/NASA Communications Intern, Rachel Abraham, discusses complex carbon molecules in nebulae with UA Researchers

Mimicking conditions thought to exist around dying stars, researchers discovered a mechanism that could explain why planetary nebulae are teeming with complex carbon molecules.

UA/NASA Space Grant Mentor, Dr. Monica Ramirez-Andreotta, leads a project to determine whether Arizona town is exposed to harmful mining toxins

UA-led project studies if Arizona town is exposed to harmful mining toxins By Alana Minkler - The Daily Wildcat "Roy Chavez, a lifelong resident of Superior, Ariz., a small mining

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).

Arsh Nadkarni stands in front of rover model

UA SEDS students present their research at SpaceVision 2019 Conference at ASU!

UA SEDS students present their research at SpaceVision 2019 Conference at ASU!

Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil (left) Erika Hamden (right)

2019-20 UA Space Grant undergraduate intern, Rachel Abraham, highlights two astronomers named AAAS If/Then Ambassadors, for UA Communications

University of Arizona astronomers Erika Hamden and Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil have been selected as American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) If/Then Ambassadors.