Center for Microgravity Research

Walkabout the Galaxy (all-about-bob)

Addie Dove gave an inspiring talk about CubeSats at UCF to cap off the UCF College of Sciences Distinguished Speaker Series.

University of Central Florida planetary scientist highlights CubeSat progress ORLANDO, Fla.—Adrienne Dove, a University of Central Florida (UCF) planetary scientist, physicist, and associate professor, capped off the university’s 2018 Distinguished Speaker series with a talk about CubeSats and UCF’s involvement with CubeSat-based science missions.

Home2017 The 2017 Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC) is the premier conference for researchers and educators interested in commercial suborbital reusable vehicles. The conference will be held at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, Colorado, just outside Boulder. NSRC-2017 will pr...

UCF Team Building Mini Satellite to Fly in Space in 2018 A team of UCF researchers and their students is building a small satellite that will conduct experiments as it orbits the Earth next year. The NASA-funded project code-named Q-PACE will help Physics Professor Joshua Colwell and his team better understand how planets form. The experiments involve mar...

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Take a look back at the Cassini mission, which ends Friday September 15, in this article by CMR Director Josh Colwell.

Cassini’s grand finale - physicsworld.com With the Cassini craft due to plunge into Saturn on 15 September, Joshua Colwell explains the scientific secrets it has revealed over the last 20 years

UCF Physicist Reflects on End of Cassini Mission, Grateful for Career Launch When NASA’s Cassini mission ends on Sept. 15 by plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere, one UCF professor will be reminiscing about the mission that launched his career and the family he’s made throughout the almost 20-year journey. Physics Professor Josh Colwell began working on the Cassini mission righ...

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UCF Making a Name for Itself in the World of Planetary Science UCF has diligently and methodically been making a name for itself in the world of planetary exploration, and it’s beginning to pay off in big ways. Not only are two UCF professors part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to collect asteroid samples – a first for the United States, but scientists are playin...

We do most of our experiments in vacuum chambers to replicate the conditions in space. Currently we are doing low-temperature (~120-140 Kelvin) experiments to better understand formation of planets in the outer solar system in this vacuum chamber. Can you guess what we call it?

Our very own Josh Colwell will be speaking at the UCF Science Cafe this week!

Joshua Colwell, Ph.D. - College of Sciences Science Cafe: Joshua Colwell Ph.D. Free parking will be available on the top floor of the Libra parking garage, adjacent to the Physical Sciences...

For the Harry Potter fans out there.... http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-magic-of-quidditch-could-be-real-if-only-we-lived-in-space

The Magic of Quidditch Could be Real if Only We Lived in Space Scientists imagine what the fictional sport would look like in microgravity.