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2008 Media Coverage
- The Infrared Eye of WISE
December 2008 – Sky & Telescope
- As the Spitzer Space Telescope nears the end of its primary, cryogenic phase, work on NASA’s next infrared observatory is advancing. The telescope for the Wide–field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is having its focus checked at the Space Dynamics Lab in Utah, before being shipped next year to Colorado, where the spacecraft bus is assembled.
- Utah space expert recalls Apollo 8 Christmas Eve message
24 December 2008 – KSL News
- While kids awaited the arrival of Santa on this night four decades ago, the people of Earth listened to three voices from a different sleigh far out in space. Tonight marks the 40th anniversary of a message from three wise men in their own right aboard Apollo 8.
- Kerry Bringhurst hosts a conversation with Dr. Douglas Lemon
25 November 2008 – Utah Public Radio
- Kerry Bringhurst hosts a conversation with Dr. Douglas Lemon, the new director for the USU Space Dynamics Laboratory. The USU alum holds a bachelor's degree and PH.D. in physics from USU and was awarded the university's coveted Robin's Award in 1974. Lemon's career spans nearly 30 years in various roles at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington State.
- USU welcomes a new space director
12 November 2008 – The Utah Statesman
- Former USU Aggie Douglas Lemon has returned to Utah State to replace Mike Pavich as the Space Dynamics Laboratory’s director.
- Physicist to head USU’s Space Dynamics Lab
20 October 2008 – The Salt Lake Tribune
- Utah State University has named a physicist with a 30–year background in federal energy research to head its Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL), replacing the recently retired Mike Pavich. Cache Valley native Douglas Lemon has worn many hats at Washington state’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, most recently as the lab’s strategy director and as CEO of a spin–off called Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Inc.
- Dr. Doug Lemon was named director of the Space Dynamics Laboratory
October 2008 – Utah CEO Magazine
- Dr. Doug Lemon was named director of the Space Dynamics Laboratory. The laboratory, a nonprofit research corporation owned by Utah State University, was led for the past five years by Mike Pavich, who is retiring.
- Space: Exploring the final frontier
01 October 2008 – The Utah Statesman
- Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Lab (SDL) is a huge research facility, consisting of six buildings and 200,000 square feet of laboratory, office and conference space. The headquarters are located in North Logan, with other SDL offices located in Massachusetts, New Mexico and Colorado.
- SDL looks to get $11M in federal funds
30 September 2008 – Herald Journal
- Congress has approved roughly $11 million in funding for national security projects housed at Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Lab.
- Utah military installments get lift from Congress
28 September 2008 – Deseret News
- The Senate passed and sent to President Bush on Saturday a stop–gap funding bill that included more than $130 million for Utah defense bases and contractors.
- USU student wins contest award for satellite work
22 September 2008 – The Herald Journal
- A Utah State University graduate student won a $10,000 scholarship in an annual contest held during the school’s Small Satellite Conference.
- PNNL's Lemon to leave for Utah State
11 September 2008 – Tri-City Herald
- Douglas Lemon of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will become director of the Space Dynamic Laboratory at Utah State University in North Logan next month.
- USU alum returning as newest SDL head
10 September 2008 – The Herald Journal
- The Utah State University Research Foundation on Tuesday named Dr. Douglas Lemon as director of the Space Dynamics Laboratory.
- USU alum to head space laboratory
10 September 2008 – Standard–Examiner
- The Utah State University Research Foundation on Tuesday named Dr. Douglas Lemon as director of the Space Dynamics Laboratory.
- New commissioner of higher education kicks off statewide college, university tour at USU
10 September 2008 – The Herald Journal
- William Sederburg, Utah’s new commissioner of higher education, likes to say that physical stamina is essential in politics – and his recent visit to Utah State University proved the adage.
- USU alum named head of Space Dynamics Laboratory
09 September 2008 – Associated Press
- The Utah State University Research Foundation on Tuesday named Dr. Douglas Lemon as director of the Space Dynamics Laboratory.
- Protective ‘Skin’ Could Herald Tiny Satellite Fleet
05 September 2008 – Discovery News
- In what could be a big breakthrough for tiny satellites, a team of researchers has created a thin plastic–like coating that can switch from cooling to warming with a quick pulse of electricity.
- OK, it is rocket science
23 August 2008 – The Herald Journal
- For many Aggies, life really is rocket science. To date, more student–built experiments have been sent into space from Utah State University than any other institution of higher learning in the world.
- SDL ‘CyberSMART’ in face of new digital threats
21 August 2008 – The Herald Journal
- Imagine foreign officials hacking into Wall Street computer systems and bringing the stock market to a standstill. National security experts say that scenario is becoming more likely as nations and large terrorist groups realize the potential of cyber attacks.
- Tiny Satellites Promise Low–Risk, Low–Cost Space Future
20 August 2008 – The Herald Journal
- Space–industry belt–tightening and ever shrinking technology are combining to give tiny satellites a big future, scientists say.
- The Space Show Broadcast 999
15 August 2008 – The Space Show
- This program consists of three sets of interviews from the August 2008 SmallSat Conference located on the campus of Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
- Small Satellite Conference; USU hosts milestone gathering
14 August 2008 – The Standard–Examiner
- Close to 1,000 aerospace professors, students and industry representatives are gathering here this week for Utah State University's Small Satellite Conference.
- USU conference beginning today
14 August 2008 – The Herald Journal
- The 22nd annual Small Satellite Conference kicks off Aug. 11-14 at Utah State University.
- Demand for data
04 August 2008 – The Herald Journal
- Business is booming at Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Lab, which recently spent $5.7 million upgrading equipment used to test satellites and other remote sensors before they are launched.
- The Space Show Broadcast 983
17 July 2008 – The Space Show
- Dr. Pat Patterson returned to The Space Show to discuss this year's SmallSat conference from August 11-14 in Logan, Utah (www.smallsat.org).
- USU Space Dynamics Lab to split lead duties
14 July 2008 – The Herald Journal
- The Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University will soon see some changes in leadership. Current SDL head Mike Pavich plans to retire in October, and the organization has decided to split his position between two new hires — SDL director and president of the USU Research Foundation.
- USU lab's projects often soar — into space
15 June 2008 – Deseret News
- On board the space shuttle Discovery, which returned to Earth Saturday, was technology designed and created by students and faculty at Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory. Not only has the Logan school designed, built and flown more experiments into space than any other university in the world, but Thermal Management Technologies Director J. Clair Batty said USU students are learning to enterprise and commercialize their space-age products.
- Utah employers honored for efforts to promote safety
07 June 2008 – The Salt Lake Tribune
- In order to foster injury prevention awareness, the Workers Compensation Fund annually offers its Charles A. Caine Safety Awards to applaud the efforts of Utah companies whose programs and success in creating a safe workplace can serve as example to other businesses.
- Space Dynamics Lab Researcher Discusses Innovative Space Technology in Utah
05 June 2008 – Utah State Today
- Utah State University has designed, built and flown more experiments into space than any other university in the world. USU Space Dynamics Laboratory researcher J. Clair Batty will present at USU’s Sunrise Session presentation Friday, June 13, at 7:30 a.m., at Little America Hotel (500 South Main) in Salt Lake City. Attendees will hear Batty discuss USU’s space research heritage and the innovative next–generation discoveries in which SDL is involved.
- Cache Valley companies win safety awards
30 May 2008 – The Herald Journal
- Two Cache Valley businesses will be awarded by the Worker’s Compensation Fund next week for their workplace safety endeavors.
- Lockheed Martin Team Completes Calibration of Key Component for MDA’s Multiple Kill Vehicle–L
21 May 2008 – Space Daily
- Lockheed Martin has announced that its team has completed an important milestone for a key element of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Multiple Kill Vehicle–L (MKV–L) payload by successfully calibrating an operational pathfinder seeker for the carrier vehicle at the Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah.
- Mr. September – USU Engineering Student Takes Home Best of Show
May 2008 – Utah State Today
- When Utah State University mechanical and aerospace engineering student Dennis Olsen sat down in the Engineering Graphics class in Fall 2007, he had no idea that he was about to create a piece of art that would be distributed around the world.
- Plants as Important in Space as on Earth
08 April 2008 – Voice of America
- Growing a vegetable garden isn’t so difficult, on earth. But a space garden
well, that's another story. Still, as Sheri Quinn reports, plants will likely be an important part of future space missions, not only to sustain the travelers’ bodies, but their souls, as well.
- The governor’s Centers of Excellence program redirects research funding to private sector
27 March 2008 – Salt Lake City Weekly
- Under Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.’s tenure, the Centers of Excellence program goal has been to efficiently get high–tech research to the market, and in typical Utah fashion—on a budget.
- Utah State Research Unit Wins NOAA Sensor Work
24 March 2008 – Space News
- The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded the Utah State University Research Foundation (Space Dynamics Laboratory) of Logan a contract worth as much as $4.5 million over five years to provide technical support and perform two technology development studies for instruments slated to fly aboard its new generation of polar–orbiting weather satellites, NOAA said in a March 13 press release.
- Multiple Kill Vehicle–L Calibrated for Success
19 March 2008 – Missile Defense Agency
- On April 16, 2008 at the Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah, the Multiple Kill Vehicle team completed calibration of the pathfinder carrier vehicle seeker. Completion of pathfinder seeker calibration is a major milestone along the way to develop new technology required for target tracking and discrimination for the Multiple Kill Vehicle program. Completion of this milestone is the culmination of a multi–year effort to develop telescopes, structures, electronics, and software to meet the challenging requirements of mid–course threat sensing.
- USU experiment taking flight with NASA
09 March 2008 – Deseret Morning News
- When space shuttle Endeavor launches on the next NASA expedition to the International Space Station — recently scheduled for next Tuesday — it will be carrying experiments assembled by Utah State University that should help many future space projects.
- Valley suffers 3 straight red air days
20 February 2008 – The Herald Journal
- For the third straight day, the air in Cache Valley has violated the federal
standard, and it’s unclear just how long the inversion will last. Some Utah State University students and employees of the USU Space Dynamics
Laboratory, however, braved the air pollution while trying to gather research
on the inversion Tuesday.
- Space Dynamics Laboratory Opens Albuquerque Office
18 February 2008 – Space News
- Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory, a non–profit research corporation that builds sensors for civilian and military U.S. government customers, announced the opening of a new Albuquerque, N.M., office in a Feb. 11 press release.
- Student rocket team competing nationally
08 February 2008 – The Utah Statesman
- The USU launch team will compete for the first time in the NASA–funded University
Launch Initiative Rocketeering Challenge on April 19 in Huntsville, Ala.
- SDL opens N.M. office
07 February 2008 – The Herald Journal
- Calling it a result of a growing and successful company, the Space Dynamics
Laboratory announced they have opened another office outside Logan.
An Albuquerque, N.M., satellite office will continue to serve major clients
SDL already has worked with, such as the Air Force Research Laboratory and Sandia
National Laboratories.
- D.U.S.T.E.R.
23 January 2008 – The Herald Journal
- A reconnaissance program nicknamed D.U.S.T.E.R. for Deployable Unmanned Systems
for Targeting, Exploitation and Reconnaissance, has developed a pair of imaging devices lightweight enough to be placed on very small unmanned aircraft, which offers a tactical advantage because it prevents the need to put people in harm’s way, and small aircraft are less expensive to fly or to lose.
- Night Hawks
Winter 2007 – Utah State Magazine
- Photographing noctilucent clouds and meteor showers in order to learn more
about our solar system.
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