UCF Provides Maps, Ice Favorability Index to Companies Looking to Mine the Moon
A UCF team creates a geological model that will give prospectors a better idea of where the moon may hide its water ice, which may play a role in future human exploration of the solar system. BY ZENAIDA GONZALEZ KOTALA | JUNE 1, 2020 | https://www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-provides-maps-ice-favorability-index-to-companies-looking-to-mine-the-moon/ The 49ers who panned for gold during California’s Gold Rush didn’t Read More …
Interview with FSI’s Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr. David Mackler.
Anshare (Interviewer): What university did you graduate from and what field did you get your PhD in? David (Interviewee): I have two bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach. My Ph.D. in Physics is from The University of Texas at San Antonio, but my research was conducted at Southwest Read More …
Interview with FSI’s Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr. Raúl Carballo Rubio.
Anshare (Interviewer): What university did you graduate from and what field did you get your PhD in? Raúl (Interviewee): I studied Physics at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Seville. I got my PhD from the Spanish National Research Council and the University of Granada. A: How did you become interested in your current Read More …
UCF Postdoctoral Researcher Detects Satellite Orbiting a Small Body in Solar System
The technique used to detect the satellite could help identify more objects, which could potentially help broaden our understanding of our solar system. BY ZENAIDA GONZALEZ KOTALA | DECEMBER 11, 2019 https://www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-postdoctoral-researcher-detects-hunts-of-satellite-orbiting-dwarf-planet/ A University of Central Florida postdoctoral scholar has detected hints of a satellite orbiting an object beyond Neptune. Estela Fernandez-Valenzuela, a postdoctoral research associate at Read More …
FSI Team Awarded Solar System Workings Grant by NASA
Dr. Julie Brisset, research scientist at the Florida Space Institute, was awarded a Solar System Workings grant by NASA to study a potential formation scenario for rings around outer Solar System objects. Outside of the inner solar system, beyond Neptune, there are bodies called transneptunian objects that contain ices; their composition is different from asteroids Read More …
NASA Funds UCF Research for New Power Systems on Space Missions
UCF will develop a new way of powering and heating spacecrafts when they are far from the sun and solar energy isn’t practical. BY ZENAIDA GONZALEZ KOTALA | DECEMBER 5, 2019 NASA has turned to UCF to develop a new way of powering and heating spacecraft when they are far from the sun and solar energy isn’t practical. Read More …
Interview with Ana Carolina de Souza Feliciano: an Astronomy PhD student at Observatório Nacional in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ana Carolina de Souza Feliciano is an international student from Brazil. She is collaborating with Dr. Noemí Pinilla-Alonso on the study of small Solar System bodies from an observational perspective at FSI. Anshare Antoine, Interviewer: What are you studying? Ana Carolina de Souza Feliciano, Interviewee: I am studying Small Solar System bodies from an observational Read More …
Arecibo Observatory to Offer New Opportunities for Visiting Scientists
$1.5 million grant to help launch new programs, including guaranteed telescope time for selected participants. BY ZENAIDA KOTALA | NOVEMBER 14, 2019 The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will launch a new series of programs to host junior and senior scientists at the observatory to boost the transfer of science knowledge and train the next generations of Read More …
UCF Professor Part of Team Awarded the Sir Arthur Clarke Award
The award, named after the British science fiction writer and futurist, is one of the most prestigious space-exploration awards in the world. BY ZENAIDA GONZALEZ KOTALA | NOVEMBER 15, 2019 NASA’s New Horizons Mission Team, which includes UCF physics Professor Dan Britt, Thursday was awarded the 2019 Sir Arthur Clarke Award, one of the most prestigious space-exploration Read More …
UCF’s James Webb Space Telescope proposal led by FSI’s postdoctoral researcher, Estela Fernández-Valenzuela, was accepted!
UCF’s proposal to “become a resource for researchers in Florida, Puerto Rico and Latin America seeking an opportunity to use the new James Webb Space Telescope to be launched by NASA,” led by FSI’s postdoctoral researcher, Estela Fernández-Valenzuela, was accepted by the Space Telescope Sciences Institute (STScI). FSI scientist, Noemi Pinilla-Alonso, and physics graduate student, Read More …