07 December 2007 SDL celebrates 6th anniversary of SABER launch: Six years after successful launch, the Space Dynamics Laboratory’s SABER, or Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry, instrument continues to gather data that is helping scientists understand global temperature profiles and sources of atmospheric cooling.

05 November 2007 USU Space Dynamics Lab Scientist Receives Governor’s Medal: The Space Dynamics Laboratory is proud to announce that Dr. Tom Wilkerson, SDL senior scientist, will receive a 2007 Utah Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology.

01 November 2007 SDL to collaborate with SpaceDev on thermal radiator technology: SpaceDev announced today that it has been awarded a $100,000 firm fixed price contract for the development of a new radiator technology for satellite thermal control. SpaceDev will collaborate with the Space Dynamics Laboratory of Utah State University to build and test a validation prototype of a new light-weight, high performance radiator technology for space applications.

11 October 2007 USU’s Space Dynamics Laboratory demonstrates latest Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance technology: On October, 10, Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory hosted congressional staff and key industry leaders at an open house which demonstrated their latest technology in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. Front and center was the demonstration of the DUSTER program, for which Sen. Bennett was instrumental in securing funding.

28 August 2007 Space Dynamics Laboratory hosts 16th Calibration Conference at USU: September 10-13 marks the 16th year of the CALCON Technical Conference held on the Utah State University campus in the Nora Eccles Conference Center.

31 July 2007 USU hosts 21st Annual Small Satellite Conference: With the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) hosting the opening social, Utah State University is gearing up for the 21st Annual Small Satellite Conference August 13 – 16 at the Eccles Conference Center on the USU campus.

01 July 2007 Utah State gets Senate appropriations: The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved two spending bills that would provide $1.5 million for Utah State University research. USU’s Space Dynamics Lab (SDL) would receive $500,000; a study on the economic impact of renewable energy sources in rural Utah would get $1 million.

18 May 2007 SDL teams with Russian scientists to solve problems of growing plants in space: Early Tuesday morning, a cargo spacecraft carrying the world’s first space soil physics experiment docked with the International Space Station. The Optimization of Root Zone Substrates, or ORZS, is a collaborative venture between Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory and the Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems, or IBMP, that will help future space explorers overcome the challenges of growing plants in space.

03 May 2007 Idaho Falls Native Instrumental in NASA Launch Despite Cancer: Last week, NASA launched their first mission to the explore mysterious ice clouds on the edge of space. Not only was Idaho falls native Brandon Paulson a key component of some of NASA's projects, but he accomplished a lot of what he did while battling cancer.

26 April 2007 Mission aims at highest clouds: The US space agency (Nasa) has launched a mission to study the highest clouds on Earth - noctilucent clouds.

26 April 2007 Rocket designed by USU launches into orbit to study high-altitude clouds: Nearly 10 years ago, Utah State University professor Mike Taylor saw an unusual glow in Logan’s night sky. The light came from a rare type of cloud, which forms high in the atmosphere and shines after dark. These noctilucent clouds are usually seen in polar regions and had never been documented as far south as Utah.

26 April 2007 Former SOFIE manager has name inscribed on rocket: Embedded in the emotion surrounding another successful launch of a USU instrument into space was the death of Brandon Paulsen, who presided over the NASA project for two years. Faced with metastatic melanoma, Paulsen died in 2005 — an abrupt end for a 32-yearold aspiring engineer who had already accomplished much in the aerospace industry. While friends and family clapped Wednesday as the spacecraft carrying the instrument reached orbit, some also cried, remembering the passion Paulsen brought to the project.

25 April 2007 USU Embarks on NASA Cloud Study: Cirrus clouds, stratus clouds, cumulus clouds – since ancient times, people have gazed skyward and pondered fluffy wisps of white and angry gray thunderheads.

25 April 2007 Launch of science instrument built in North Logan, Utah will give insight to changes in weather and climate: With today’s successful launch of NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission, Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Lab (SDL) sends another science instrument into space.

19 April 2007 Space Dynamics Lab memorializes friend and colleague: With next Wednesday’s scheduled launch of a NASA science mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, friends and coworkers from the Space Dynamics Laboratory remember a young engineer who died at 32 from metastatic melanoma, an end-stage form of skin cancer.

12 April 2007 USU Joins NASA Cloud Study: Clouds forming at the edge of space appear to be getting brighter and more frequent, raising questions as to their possible link to global warming. An upcoming NASA mission, with an assist from Utah State University, will send a satellite into orbit to study noctilucent clouds, which appear to glow at night.

11 April 2007 Utah Technology to Help NASA Spacecraft Collect Data: Changing movements of elusive clouds on the very edge of space could be more ammunition for global warming. Two weeks from now, NASA will launch a spacecraft with a Utah-built instrument aboard that will probe that cold region of our outer atmosphere.

5 April 2007 Science instrument built in Utah will gather data from Earth's highest clouds to gain insight to change in global climate: Scientists will soon begin collecting data from Earth’s highest clouds with an instrument designed and built at Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) in North Logan, Utah. Many scientists believe that recent changes in these high-altitude, night-shining clouds may be indicators of change in our global climate and weather patterns.

3 April 2007 SDL welcomes new USURF board chair, Oren Phillips: Oren B. Phillips, retired vice president of business development for ATK, a leader in aerospace technologies and manufacturing, is starting his responsibilities as newly elected chairman for the USURF Board of Trustees.