A new space weather forecasting center at the University of Michigan seeks to improve solar weather forecasting. The CLEAR Center was featured in an article on Space.com titled “Space Weather is a Growing Threat. This New NASA Center Aims to Help Protect Us” | November 2023
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“NASA Astronaut Josh Cassada Discusses Space Station Mission in UM Talk”
NASA Astronaut Josh A. Cassada visited U-M as part of the University of Michigan Physics Department’s Saturday Morning Physics series and was featured in an article on Fox2Detroit.com titled “NASA Astronaut Josh Cassada Discusses Space Station Mission in UM Talk.” | October 2023.
$9.7M for Tools to Improve Forecasts of Harmful Space Weather
Space weather predictions are neither accurate nor timely, and that leaves astronauts without enough time to react to dangerous particles flung out by the sun. Now, NASA is providing $9.7 million to establish a Space Weather Center of Excellence
U-M Space Institute Announces New Director
Dr. Chris Ruf, who works in the U-M Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, will lead the U-M Space Institute as the new director.
“University of Michigan Partners with NASA to Study Venus in Unprecedented New Mission”
The Space Physics Research Laboratory was featured in an article on Fox2Detroit.com titled “University of Michigan Partners with NASA to Study Venus in Unprecedented New Mission,” for its work building a mass spectrometer that can survive the hottest planet in the solar system. | April 2023
U-M Hosts NASA PI Launchpad Workshop
The NASA Science Mission Directorate, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and a group of mission experts have teamed up to make the mission development process more transparent and accessible to researchers, by offering the NASA PI Launchpad workshop.
NEMISIS Investigation Selected for NASA GDC Mission
In January, NASA selected the final investigations for the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) Mission. The two investigations for the flagship mission include the Thermal Plasma Sensor and NEMISIS (Near Earth Magnetometer Instrument in a Small Integrated System), led by University of Michigan Prof. Mark Moldwin.
New from JWST: An Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before
NASA’s JWST has scored another first in its release of stunning images: a molecular and chemical portrait of a distant world’s skies.
U-M BLiSS Teams Win Two NASA Projects
Expanding the potential ways humans can operate in space, NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation have selected two University of Michigan student teams to develop advanced and innovative design ideas that could solve Artemis mission challenges.
The Astronaut’s Doctor: Michigan Alumna Realizes Her Dream at NASA
Natacha Chough (M.D. 2010) spent her childhood looking at the sky. There was something so inviting, so challenging about the immensity of space — and our place within it. She decided early on that she wanted to work at NASA.
During an undergraduate internship at NASA in 2000, Chough learned about aerospace medicine, a specialty Continue Reading »