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Students Take First Place in First Nations Rocket Competition

Andy Fell — June 04, 2021 - 3:14pm

A team of 51�ԹϺ�� Davis students has placed first overall in the First Nations Launch competition sponsored by NASA and the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium. As winners, the team will be invited to a VIP tour of the Kennedy Space Center later this year. The team was also awarded a grant of $15,000 to compete in the NASA Student Launch Initiative competition in Georgia next spring.

First Nations Rocket Team Prepares for Launch

Andy Fell — May 14, 2021 - 11:50am

Students from the First Nations Launch team at the University of California, Davis, will launch a rocket this Saturday (May 15) on behalf of a team from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. The Canadian team is unable to carry out its own launch due to pandemic restrictions.

Alum Helps Bring Mars Helicopter to Life

Cody Kitaura — April 19, 2021 - 11:00am

Sara Langberg ’16 used the curiosity and passion for learning things she developed at 51�ԹϺ�� Davis to help NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, part of the Perseverance mission, come to life. Langberg is an aeromechanical engineer at AeroVironment, a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems with a long history of breakthrough innovation. Since joining the company in 2016, her team has been working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or JPL, on the small robotic helicopter that will attempt the first powered flight on another planet.

New Institute Eyes HOME in Deep Space

Andy Fell — April 30, 2019 - 1:34pm

In a significant step toward human-crewed space missions to the moon or Mars, NASA has awarded a grant of up to $15 million over five years to a new research institute led by the University of California, Davis. The HOME (Habitats Optimized for Missions of Exploration) Space Technology Research Institute will develop enabling technology for spacecraft and deep-space bases of the future.

Students Design Greenhouse for Mars

Andy Fell — April 26, 2019 - 4:33pm

A student team from the 51�ԹϺ�� Davis Space and Satellite Systems club was one of five university teams invited to present their plans for a Mars greenhouse at the NASA Langley Research Center last Tuesday, April 23.

The winds of Titan

IET WebDev — December 08, 2014 - 12:00am

As sand dunes march across the Sahara, vast dunes cross the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. New research from a refurbished NASA wind tunnel reveals the physics of how particles move in Titan's methane-laden winds and could help to explain why Titan's dunes form in the way they do. The work is published online Dec. 8 in the journal Nature.