Special Announcements
- Applications are open for the Perot Jain TechLab Series through the UM Center for Entrepreneurship. This series offers students unparalleled training, mentoring, and hands-on experience in cutting-edge fields like autonomous vehicles, climate change, and air & space.
- Winter 2026 Course Announcement: SPACE 590
Michigan Space Problem>Solution Class (Thursdays 1:30-4:30 pm)
This course will have graduate-level multidisciplinary student teams focus on developing in-space services, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) solutions. - The Michigan Office of Defense & Aerospace Innovation (ODAI) invites undergraduate students to the 2025 MiSpace Hackathon, “Dynamic Ice Monitoring & Characterization through Space.” $30,000 in cash prizes for the top teams! Deadline for this virtual event is November 17th. Learn more on the MiSpace Hackathon website.
Empowering the University of Michigan to Advance Its World Leadership in Space
The Space Institute is the central focal point of space-related research across the entire University of Michigan campus, where stakeholders are encouraged to collaborate creatively and effectively with colleagues from a broad range of backgrounds.
We Advance Leadership in Space Activities:
- Scientifically (including fundamental and applied research)
- Technically (via engineering and project synergies)
- Socially (emphasizing society’s reliance on space)
- Commercially (through innovation, workforce education and corporate partnerships)
Our Focus is Three-Fold:
- Conduct research from space
- Design systems to operate in space
- Allow humans to live in space
U-M Space News
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We Need a Solar Sail Probe to Detect Space Tornadoes Earlier, More Accurately, U-M Researchers Say
Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth’s magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to detect with our current single-location warning system, according to a new…
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Frontier No More? Michigan Engineers Work on Solutions for Space Debris
Researchers at U-M and elsewhere are working to keep space safe for future generations. They’re developing solutions that could enable tracking of microscopic fragments and designing forecasting tools that could more accurately…
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B-SPICE Raises TRL of the Spacecraft-Charging Mitigation Scheme, Operating in a Space Environment
Omar León, an Assistant Research Scientist at the U-M Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, talks more about the launch of the B-SPICE mission from White Sands Missile Range in…
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