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A University of New Mexico research center has recently been awarded a $19 million award to conduct communications, positioning, navigation and timing projects, which have been deemed a priority to the U.S. Space Force and other military and governmental...

The state’s flagship university is working with the New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency to get face shields and masks to frontline workers battling COVID-19. "The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event that truly calls for all...

It didn’t take long after news of the global pandemic of the coronavirus hit for members of The University of New Mexico’s School of Engineering to begin using their ingenuity, looking for ways to help. In particular, news that those on the front lines...

The University of New Mexico has been awarded a $7 million grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop and build new materials and devices for electronics in space. The five-year contract was awarded this month to COSMIAC, a research center...

A rainstorm passing through Albuquerque can frizz your home television satellite signal, and degrade signals relaying data from space or across long distances at the radio frequencies we all use now. But what happens when you use frequencies much farther...

The University of New Mexico’s Configurable Space Microsystems Innovations and Applications Center (COSMIAC) is preparing its third CubeSat, a small, cube-shaped satellite, for a space launch.  

The University of New Mexico’s latest tool for building and testing small satellites is under construction. Students will spend the rest of the summer completing work to test and calibrate power sources for a Helmholtz Cage they have built at the UNM S

Julian LuceroJulian Lucero, a UNM undergraduate in Computer Engineering, is spending his summer thinking about the recently discovered Comet ISON. He is one of three interns working with researchers in the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics ...

Central New Mexico">UNM's Center for Configurable Space Microsystems (COSMIAC) is developing the capability of launching high altitude balloons to conduct experiments in the ionosphere. Two students, Jacy Bitsoie a civil engineering student from UNM and ...

A team of UNM undergraduates working on a senior design capstone project have designed, built and launched a helium balloon with a payload of sensors into the ionosphere. The group led by Clint Corbin, the lead mechanical engineering designer and Zach ...