USU Space Dynamics Lab to split lead duties
14 July 2008 – The Herald Journal: The Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University will soon see some changes in leadership. Current SDL head Mike Pavich plans to retire in October, and the organization has decided to split his position between two new hires SDL director and president of the USU Research Foundation.

USU lab's projects often soar — into space
15 June 2008 – Deseret News: On board the space shuttle Discovery, which returned to Earth Saturday, was technology designed and created by students and faculty at Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory. Not only has the Logan school designed, built and flown more experiments into space than any other university in the world, but Thermal Management Technologies Director J. Clair Batty said USU students are learning to enterprise and commercialize their space-age products.

Utah employers honored for efforts to promote safety
07 June 2008 – The Salt Lake Tribune: In order to foster injury prevention awareness, the Workers Compensation Fund annually offers its Charles A. Caine Safety Awards to applaud the efforts of Utah companies whose programs and success in creating a safe workplace can serve as example to other businesses.

Space Dynamics Lab Researcher Discusses Innovative Space Technology in Utah
05 June 2008 – Utah State Today: Utah State University has designed, built and flown more experiments into space than any other university in the world. USU Space Dynamics Laboratory researcher J. Clair Batty will present at USU’s Sunrise Session presentation Friday, June 13, at 7:30 a.m., at Little America Hotel (500 South Main) in Salt Lake City. Attendees will hear Batty discuss USU’s space research heritage and the innovative next–generation discoveries in which SDL is involved.

Cache Valley companies win safety awards
30 May 2008 – The Herald Journal: Two Cache Valley businesses will be awarded by the Worker’s Compensation Fund next week for their workplace safety endeavors.

Lockheed Martin Team Completes Calibration of Key Component for MDA’s Multiple Kill Vehicle–L
21 May 2008 – Space Daily: Lockheed Martin has announced that its team has completed an important milestone for a key element of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Multiple Kill Vehicle–L (MKV–L) payload by successfully calibrating an operational pathfinder seeker for the carrier vehicle at the Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah.

Plants as Important in Space as on Earth
08 April 2008 – Voice of America: Growing a vegetable garden isn’t so difficult, on earth. But a space garden well, that's another story. Still, as Sheri Quinn reports, plants will likely be an important part of future space missions, not only to sustain the travelers’ bodies, but their souls, as well.

The governors Centers of Excellence program redirects research funding to private sector
27 March 2008 – Salt Lake City Weekly: Under Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.’s tenure, the Centers of Excellence program goal has been to efficiently get high–tech research to the market, and in typical Utah fashion—on a budget.

Utah State Research Unit Wins NOAA Sensor Work
24 March 2008 – Space News: The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded the Utah State University Research Foundation (Space Dynamics Laboratory) of Logan a contract worth as much as $4.5 million over five years to provide technical support and perform two technology development studies for instruments slated to fly aboard its new generation of polar–orbiting weather satellites, NOAA said in a March 13 press release.

Multiple Kill Vehicle–L Calibrated for Success
19 March 2008 – Missile Defense Agency: On April 16, 2008 at the Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah, the Multiple Kill Vehicle team completed calibration of the pathfinder carrier vehicle seeker. Completion of pathfinder seeker calibration is a major milestone along the way to develop new technology required for target tracking and discrimination for the Multiple Kill Vehicle program. Completion of this milestone is the culmination of a multi–year effort to develop telescopes, structures, electronics, and software to meet the challenging requirements of mid–course threat sensing.

USU experiment taking flight with NASA
09 March 2008 – Deseret Morning News: When space shuttle Endeavor launches on the next NASA expedition to the International Space Station — recently scheduled for next Tuesday — it will be carrying experiments assembled by Utah State University that should help many future space projects.

Valley suffers 3 straight red air days
20 February 2008 – The Herald Journal: For the third straight day, the air in Cache Valley has violated the federal standard, and it’s unclear just how long the inversion will last. Some Utah State University students and employees of the USU Space Dynamics Laboratory, however, braved the air pollution while trying to gather research on the inversion Tuesday.

Space Dynamics Laboratory Opens Albuquerque Office
18 February 2008 – Space News: Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory, a non–profit research corporation that builds sensors for civilian and military U.S. government customers, announced the opening of a new Albuquerque, N.M., office in a Feb. 11 press release.

Student rocket team competing nationally
08 February 2008 – The Utah Statesman: The USU launch team will compete for the first time in the NASA–funded University Launch Initiative Rocketeering Challenge on April 19 in Huntsville, Ala.

SDL opens N.M. office
07 February 2008 – The Herald Journal: Calling it a result of a growing and successful company, the Space Dynamics Laboratory announced they have opened another office outside Logan. An Albuquerque, N.M., satellite office will continue to serve major clients SDL already has worked with, such as the Air Force Research Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories.

D.U.S.T.E.R.
23 January 2008 – The Herald Journal: A reconnaissance program nicknamed D.U.S.T.E.R. for Deployable Unmanned Systems for Targeting, Exploitation and Reconnaissance, has developed a pair of imaging devices lightweight enough to be placed on very small unmanned aircraft, which offers a tactical advantage because it prevents the need to put people in harm’s way, and small aircraft are less expensive to fly or to lose.

Night Hawks
Winter 2007 – Utah State Magazine: Photographing noctilucent clouds and meteor showers in order to learn more about our solar system.

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