SDL celebrates 6th anniversary of SABER launch

07 December 2007

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.

USU Space Dynamics Lab Scientist Receives Governor’s Medal

05 November 2007

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.

SDL to collaborate with SpaceDev on thermal radiator technology

01 November 2007

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.

USU’s Space Dynamics Laboratory demonstrates latest Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance technology

11 October 2007

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.

Space Dynamics Laboratory hosts 16th Calibration Conference at USU

28 August 2007

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.

USU hosts 21st Annual Small Satellite Conference

31 July 2007

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.

SDL welcomes Karika to the USURF Board of Trustees

27 July 2007

The Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah is pleased to announce that Janet C. Karika has accepted a position on the Utah State University Research Foundation Board of Trustees.

Utah State gets Senate appropriations

01 July 2007

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.

SDL teams with Russian scientists to solve problems of growing plants in space

18 May 2007

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.

Idaho Falls Native Instrumental in NASA Launch Despite Cancer

03 May 2007

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.

Mission aims at highest clouds

26 April 2007

The US space agency (Nasa) has launched a mission to study the highest clouds on Earth - noctilucent clouds.

Rocket designed by USU launches into orbit to study high-altitude clouds

26 April 2007

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.

Former SOFIE manager has name inscribed on rocket

26 April 2007

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.

USU Embarks on NASA Cloud Study

25 April 2007

Cirrus clouds, stratus clouds, cumulus clouds – since ancient times, people have gazed skyward and pondered fluffy wisps of white and angry gray thunderheads.

Launch of science instrument built in North Logan, Utah will give insight to changes in weather and climate

25 April 2007

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.

Space Dynamics Lab memorializes friend and colleague

19 April 2007

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.

USU Joins NASA Cloud Study

12 April 2007

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.

Utah Technology to Help NASA Spacecraft Collect Data

11 April 2007

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.

Science instrument built in Utah will gather data from Earth's highest clouds to gain insight to change in global climate

5 April 2007

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.

SDL welcomes new USURF board chair, Oren Phillips

3 April 2007

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.