Mason Peck, associate professor (MAE), and his team had three new spacecraft selected by the NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative to be launched into space.
Mason Peck, associate professor (MAE), and his team had three new spacecraft selected by the NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative to be launched into space. The Alpha 1U CubeSat and two Pathfinder for Autonomous Navigation 3U CubeSats now join four other Cornell spacecraft in NASA's launch queue.
Alpha is a technology demonstration mission to deploy a 1x1m light sail with four tiny “chipsats” called Sprites attached. Pathfinder for Autonomous Navigation (PAN) is a technology demonstration to launch two 3U CubeSats that will autonomously rendezvous and dock in low-Earth orbit.
Two early-career scientists at Cornell have been awarded Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellowships: Lígia Fonseca Coelho, a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Astronomy in the College of... Read more about Two Cornell scientists chosen for 51 Pegasi b Fellowships, including MAE's Zach Ulibarri
The Kessler Fellows program welcomed 20 students to its 2024 cohort. The students will spend their spring semester sharpening entrepreneurial skills while preparing for a fully funded summer... Read more about Cornell introduces its 2024 Kessler Fellows cohort
Jingjie Yeo, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, earned the award to study the molecular structures of intestinal mucus, with the ultimate goal of contributing to new therapeutics for treating human gut disorders. Read more about Yeo earns NSF CAREER award to study intestinal mucus, gut disorders
