Cal Poly Pomona has been awarded $1.2 million in combined grants from NASA to support three space-related research projects that will provide students with first-hand experience developing technology that will further national space exploration research and exploration goals. CubeSat Technology…
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In May, instead of marching at his commencement ceremony, Zachary Gaines (’23, aerospace engineering) and four fellow students were in a field outside Sioux Falls, South Dakota, watching a 100-foot-tall high-altitude balloon fill with helium. Attached to it was an…
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A design proposal for an advanced multi-use platform in cislunar space that originated in a senior capstone aerospace design lab took home the “Best in Theme” Award at the 2023 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition, one…
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On Dec. 22, the most ambitious science project in NASA history — the James Webb Space Telescope — is scheduled to launch, and aerospace engineering senior Jainav “Jai” Gohel has served on its massive team. Gohel began interning at Northrop…
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Cristian Rodriguez, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, was always interested in astronomy but seeing Saturn through his telescope set his future course. Michael Pham, an aerospace engineering ‘23, was vacationing in Florida when he was about 8 and was…
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A group of 65 Cal Poly Pomona students accepted the NASA eXploration Systems and Habitation (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge and designed and built a functional, innovative prototype that increases functionality for human space exploration missions. The Mars habitation module (CPP-HAB),…
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Spacecraft assembly facilities harbor a low but persistent amount of biological contamination despite the use of clean rooms. Rakesh Mogul, a Cal Poly Pomona professor of biological chemistry, was the lead author of an article in the journal Astrobiology that…
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An education steeped in experiential learning prepares students for The Future of Work. Here are just three significant accomplishments in the past year: The Cal Poly Pomona team of Michael Pham, Raghav Handa, Gabriela Lopez and Alex Callahan won the NASA…
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A Cal Poly Pomona team has won the NASA Glenn Research Center’s first University Student Design Challenge. During the four-month competition, 16 teams of students designed concepts for using aeronautics vehicles as a means to travel within city limits. The…
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A team of five aerospace engineering students designed and built a tool for astronauts to use in space as their senior project, and presented their work in a competition at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. “We designed and…
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