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Delaware RockSat UDIP-6 team at Wallops

Students and mission staff pose in front of their Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket on Pad 2 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. The RockSat and RockOn programs provide technical training and hands-on experiences that prepare and equip students to enter the United States aerospace industry. For the first time, NASA combined both the RockSat and RockOn missions into one rocket, which carried experiments developed by nearly 250 participants from 38 university and community college teams.

2026 University of Delaware UDIP-6 team on the launch pad at Wallops Island Flight Facility with the rocket in the background Students and mission staff pose in front of their Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket on Pad 2 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. The RockSat and RockOn programs provide technical training and hands-on experiences that… Continue reading Delaware RockSat UDIP-6 team at Wallops

Patrick Stanley, Space Grant Graduate Fellow named Fulbright Scholar

Patrick Stanley Space Grant Graduate Fellowship Student 2025-26

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international academic exchange program. Since 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided over 400,000 talented and accomplished students, scholars, teachers, artists and professionals of all backgrounds with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research abroad. Learn More

Get ready: The moon is about to blush

Dr. Bennett Maruca, Associate Director for Space Instrumentation Programs, Delaware Space Grant Consortium

UD expert explains what to expect during March 3 Blood Moon: https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2026/february/bennett-maruca-blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-worm-moon-astronomy/

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Making the invisible visible

Dr. Spencer N. Axani, Associate Director Delaware Space Grant Consortium

UD physics professor (and DE Space Grant Associate Director) Spencer Axani has invented a portable, low-cost detector that senses invisible particles from space called muons. Muons help scientists learn more about some of the most extreme phenomena in the universe, like exploding stars, gamma ray bursts and blazars. CosmicWatch is being used in international astrophysics… Continue reading Making the invisible visible

Matthaeus elected to National Academy of Sciences

Dr. William Matthaeus, Delaware Space Grant Consortium and Delaware NASA EPSCoR Director

UD physicist recognized for distinguished research on sun, solar wind, space physics https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2025/june/national-academy-sciences-william-matthaeus-plasma-space-physics/?utm_source=UDaily+Subscribers&utm_campaign=36a8b991cf-udaily_daily_mc&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b5034716d-36a8b991cf-264637149