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A Faster, Smarter Ground Station for Crowded Skies

UC San Diego engineers have designed a new kind of satellite ground station that replaces bulky dishes with coordinated small antenna panels.

These Engineers Are Working on a Better Asteroid Warning System

Despite all the excitement Hollywood offers with blockbuster films about saving Earth from disasters like asteroids, the truth is that saving the planet in those scenarios involves math. A lot of math.

Protecting Lives on Earth, With Space

With innovative approaches to life-threatening diseases and natural disasters, UC San Diego researchers are making critical breakthroughs.

Why is the Artemis II Mission Landing off the Coast of San Diego?

We asked Aaron Rosengren, a faculty member in the UC San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and an expert on spacecraft orbits between Earth and its moon, to explain why San Diego was chosen as the end point of the Artemis II mission.

An Asteroid Doesn’t Have to Hit Earth to Cause Catastrophe

A less-known threat can dramatic consequences for human civilization: a collision between a large asteroid and the moon. The debris from such a collision would damage satellites that underpin the infrastructure for everything from telecommunications, to defense, to navigation here on Earth.

Ask a Scientist: How Do the Polar Regions Impact You?

We caught up with glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker to learn about the latest research underway at the Scripps Polar Center, how changes at the poles are felt across the globe, and why federal support for science is essential to public safety and national security.