April 4, 2022

Sarah Tuttle, WA Space Grant Deputy Director, Featured in Scientific American

Women have been astronomers since forever, but they have needed to be made of iron. Vera C. Rubin, who got her Ph.D. in 1954, was advised in school to stay away from science. She kept going anyway by telling herself she was just different from other people. She did her graduate studies where her husband’s […]

April 1, 2022

UW Scholar and Colleagues Tackle Plastic Recycling — and Take Top Honors in Environmental Innovation Challenge

Congratulations to Carter Vu, the UW’s current Astronaut Scholarship Foundation scholar, and the Catalytic Carbon team for snagging the $15,000 Alaska Airlines Grand Prize in the 2022 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge. The team of aeronautics and astronomy, Master of Science in Entrepreneurship, and informatics students from the University of Washington utilizes a new recycling […]

January 13, 2022

In Space and On The Ground, Informatics Alum Has High Aspirations

By Jessi LoerchReposted courtesy of the iSchool.Photo by Doug Parry for the UW iSchool. Shannon Gatta’s work is out of this world. Gatta, who graduated from the iSchool in 2020 with a degree in Informatics, works as a data engineer for the private aerospace company Blue Origin, has completed the first level of private astronaut training, […]

November 13, 2019

Huskies Stretch a Paw Toward Space

After five years, 25,000 hours, and work by dozens of students (from high school to graduate level), HuskySat-1 is in space. On Saturday, Nov. 2, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia carrying HuskySat-1 among other science investigations and cargo. In January, the spacecraft will deploy its load […]

October 3, 2019

Washington’s first student-built satellite preparing for launch

Reprinted from UW News with permission. Team members Paige Northway, Anika Hidayat, John Correy and Eli Reed (back row, left to right) watch in June as Henry Martin of Nanoracks does a “fit test” to ensure that the satellite fits inside the silver box. The digital clock on the wall counts down the days, minutes […]