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2004 News Releases
- 23 November 2004 / NASA awards
SDL $40 million contract to build Next Generation IR Telescope
- Teamed with NASA, the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) will be building
the next generation infrared telescope to explore, survey and map the universe,
in hopes of discovering new stars, galaxies and asteroids that may be on a
collision course for Earth.
- 23 September 2004 / $2.5
million earmarked for university
- The Senate Appropriations Committee has endorsed more than $13 million
requested by Utah Republican Bob Bennett for economic development projects
throughout the state. The portion of Bennett's request earmarked for USU includes
$1 million for the Calibration Laboratory at the Space Dynamics Lab...
- 31 August 2004 / Cache Valley Residents can Watch Genesis Re-entry Live
- Cache Valley residents among those invited to watch as two Hollywood helicopter stunt pilots try to capture NASA’s Genesis spacecraft before it collides with the Earth in Utah on Sept. 8.
- 15 July 2004 / SDL project launches to help observe the Earth's atmosphere
- SDL technology launched into space on this morning aboard NASA's Aura satellite on its way to help scientists study the ozone.
- 22 June 2004 / SDL Participating in NASA Study for Next Generation Weather Satellite
- SDL's primary portion of the study may involve adapting the design and evaluating
the performance of the cryogenic imaging interferometer-spectrometer technology
developed at SDL's Stewart Radiance Laboratory.
- 07 June 2004 / SDL project launches to help observe the Earth's atmosphere
- A critical piece of hardware built by the Space Dynamics Laboratory for
the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) instrument is launching into
space on June 19 aboard NASA's Aura satellite...
- 15 March 2004 / Wellsville Mountain Wave Research Starts Off With a Bang
- Loud fireworks explosions will be heard during
the week of March 1519 as Cache Valley and the surrounding area become involved
in Wellsville Wave project a major atmospheric experiment utilizing an unprecedented
team of volunteer atmospheric scientists, engineers, glider pilots, ham radio
operators and some future scientists and their teachers.
- 20 February 2004 / SDL Receives Contract to Research Plants for Space Travel
- In preparation for current and future space endeavors, NASA awarded the
Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) a $750 thousand contract to research the best
types of vegetables to grow in space, how to clean them and the psychological
effects they have on astronauts and cosmonauts.
- 29 January 2004 / Utah State University Receives
Patent for 3-D Camera
- A patent received by Utah State University for 3-D Multispectral Imaging could revolutionize the world of reconnaissance, movies, video games, geological surveying, disaster response, homeland security and even the way we view our evening news.
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