$3M in NASA funding will help students from underrepresented backgrounds build miniature satellites. The project will focus on the study of asteroids, but will offer many applications and possibilities that could be used to the study of Earth as well.

EDO congratulates Lynn Carter, an associate professor in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and member of EDO's executive committee, as a recent recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Federal agencies nominate researchers in recognition of their contributions to the advancement of science, technology, engineering, and math eduction, and to community service as demonstrated by scientific leadership, public education, and community outreach.

Find out about EDO-sponsored student CubeSat projects, funding awards and opportunities, upcoming events, and more.

Two Earth Dynamics Observatory (EDO)-sponsored teams of aerospace engineering seniors spent the past year developing new CubeSat-based approaches for acquiring data about Earth’s ice sheets, glaciers, and the ground beneath them.

EDO's 2019 retreat summary, proposal support funding opportunity, upcoming workshop on missions, EDO in the news, and more.

Nearly 40 people attended the second annual EDO retreat on March 27 at the Hacienda del Sol Guest Ranch Resort. The event began with an hour of "speed talks," brief presentations of the many small— less than $10M—existing and proposed projects that EDO researchers are working on.

A new kind of inflatable space antenna developed by University of Arizona students and faculty is slated for launch aboard a NASA mission as soon as next year.

A team of researchers at the University of Arizona has recently developed a new method to coordinate and control spacecraft swarms, which could be easier to implement on a large scale. 

The ice fields of southwest Greenland are becoming particularly sensitive to a climate cycle called the North Atlantic Oscillation and will become a major contributor to sea level rise as global warming progresses.