Space Science Center
UNH Awarded $24 Million to Build Solar Wind Sensors for NOAA
The University of New Hampshire has been awarded $24.3 million by NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to build sensors for a high-priority alert system that will monitor the effects of space weather and the solar wind — caused by explosions on the sun —... Read More
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08/08/245 Ways Wildcats Are Staying Cool This Summer
Summer of ’24 has already broken heat records here in New England, but some in our UNH community are staying cool. Here are five ways our ’Cats are... -
07/25/24UNH Makes Space Technology Available to Industry
UNH has launched its Space Technology Hub, a first-of-its-kind center in the region that provides testing facilities and expertise to the commercial... -
04/03/24Student-led Project Examines Sun’s Corona During Total Eclipse
Six Ph.D. physics students from UNH were selected to participate in Citizen CATE 2024 project to collect data during the total solar eclipse. -
03/20/24Predicting Solar Weather With Machine Learning
New grants from NASA and the National Science Foundation further UNH research into magnetospheric processes.
Recent Stories
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08/30/16 - Magnetic Mysteries, DecodedA NASA rocket carrying instruments developed by scientists, engineers and students from UNH’s Space Science Center (SSC) has obtained the first-ever data of an elusive phenomenon... Read More -
05/12/16 - Magnetic ReconnectionOn October 16, 2015, dozens of UNH scientists, space physics researchers, engineers and students made history. Read More -
07/23/15 - Riding HighProject SMART high school students steady their scientific balloon as it fills with helium prior to launch. (Photo: Devin Thomas, University of British Columbia) Near space is... Read More -
03/05/15 - For These UNH Students, It Is Rocket ScienceLong before it blasts into space March 12, the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will have launched the careers of would-be rocket scientists who contributed to the mission... Read More -
03/05/15 - Space QuartetTen years ago, UNH physics professor Roy Torbert knew that when the university’s Space Science Center (SSC) was awarded a very large role in NASA’s ambitious, four-spacecraft... Read More -
07/25/13 - Heavenly Science: Student Balloons Video Earth Below, Space AboveOn Thursday, July 17, 2013, high school students and their University of New Hampshire Project SMART mentors successfully flew twin weather balloons that carried... Read More -
12/13/12 - In the Hot SeatThe Solar Orbiter mission, with a UNH instrument on board, will use a series of gravitational slingshots around Venus to get closer to the sun than ever before. Read More -
08/23/12 - Tightening the Scientific Understanding of the BeltsMore than a dozen years in the making, the twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes will rocket into the harsh environment of Earth's Van Allen radiation belts to probe their inner... Read More