NASA awards SDL $40 million contract to build Next Generation IR Telescope

23 November 2004

Teamed with NASA, the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) will be building the next generation infrared telescope to explore, survey and map the universe, in hopes of discovering new stars, galaxies and asteroids that may be on a collision course for Earth.

$2.5 million earmarked for university

23 September 2004

The Senate Appropriations Committee has endorsed more than $13 million requested by Utah Republican Bob Bennett for economic development projects throughout the state. The portion of Bennett's request earmarked for USU includes $1 million for the Calibration Laboratory at the Space Dynamics Lab...

Cache Valley Residents can Watch Genesis Re-entry Live

31 August 2004

Cache Valley residents among those invited to watch as two Hollywood helicopter stunt pilots try to capture NASA’s Genesis spacecraft before it collides with the Earth in Utah on Sept. 8.

SDL project launches to help observe the Earth's atmosphere

15 July 2004

SDL technology launched into space on this morning aboard NASA's Aura satellite on its way to help scientists study the ozone.

SDL Participating in NASA Study for Next Generation Weather Satellite

22 June 2004

SDL's primary portion of the study may involve adapting the design and evaluating the performance of the cryogenic imaging interferometer-spectrometer technology developed at SDL's Stewart Radiance Laboratory.

SDL project launches to help observe the Earth's atmosphere

07 June 2004

A critical piece of hardware built by the Space Dynamics Laboratory for the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) instrument is launching into space on June 19 aboard NASA's Aura satellite...

Wellsville Mountain Wave Research Starts Off With a Bang

15 March 2004

Loud fireworks explosions will be heard during the week of March 15–19 as Cache Valley and the surrounding area become involved in Wellsville Wave project a major atmospheric experiment utilizing an unprecedented team of volunteer atmospheric scientists, engineers, glider pilots, ham radio operators and some future scientists and their teachers.

SDL Receives Contract to Research Plants for Space Travel

20 February 2004

In preparation for current and future space endeavors, NASA awarded the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) a $750 thousand contract to research the best types of vegetables to grow in space, how to clean them and the psychological effects they have on astronauts and cosmonauts.

Utah State University Receives Patent for 3-D Camera

29 January 2004

A patent received by Utah State University for 3-D Multispectral Imaging could revolutionize the world of reconnaissance, movies, video games, geological surveying, disaster response, homeland security and even the way we view our evening news.