UCF Student Explores Bridges Between Health in Space and Health on Earth Luis Jimenez-Chavez ’22 is part of multiple research teams making progress for space travel, biomedical science, cancer research — and for his family’s sacrifices.
UCF Researchers Measure Size of Elusive Moon Orbiting Distant Dwarf Planet for First Time In newly published research, UCF postdoctoral scholars Benjamin Proudfoot and Flavia Luane Rommel confirmed their predictions of the movements of two small space objects, giving greater insight into the development of our solar system and informing future NASA missions.
UCF Engineering Students Place 3rd in NASA Tech Challenge The team of mechanical and aerospace engineering students turned their Senior Design project into an award-winning invention that can protect solar panels in space from the harmful effects of lunar regolith.
UCF Scientists Use James Webb Space Telescope to Better Understand Solar System’s Origins A newly published study shows varying levels of methanol, a molecule that is an important component of pre-biotic chemistry, in a spectral analysis of small celestial objects beyond Neptune.
Sandia National Laboratory Taps UCF Researchers to Develop Infrared Camera for Space The three-year project, supported by a $750K grant, is part of Sandia’s Photonic Enable Tera-scale InfraRed Imager (PETRI) Grand Challenge Laboratory Directed Research and Development program.
How UCF Researchers Are Playing Key Role in Discovering Health Impacts of Space Travel College of Medicine Professor Michal Masternak and two graduate students are processing health samples last Saturday from Fram2, the latest commercial spaceflight and the first crewed flight to orbit Earth over its polar regions.
UCF Expert on Fram2 Mission Bringing Historic Opportunities for Space Medicine Discoveries As space travel advances, missions such as Fram2 provide space medicine experts like Emmanuel Urquieta of the College of Medicine with opportunities to study its effects on human health.
UCF’s ‘Space Czar’ Nominated to Become NASA’s Chief Financial Officer Greg Autry, who serves as UCF’s associate provost for Space Commercialization and Strategy, is nationally recognized for his leadership in space research and innovation.
Astrophysics Observatory SPHEREx Launches on its Way to Study the Origins of the Universe The infrared space telescope will spend about two years orbiting Earth from over 400 miles overhead, collecting data on more than 450 million galaxies.
Operator Solutions, UCF Partner to Advance Aerospace Medical Training and Emergency Response The partnership will include a new aerospace medical skills lab developed at the UCF College of Medicine and collaborations to create new technology advancing healthcare in space.
