Lori Magruder, Director of The University of Texas at Austin Center for Space Research has been recognized as one of 50 women making a difference in the space and satellite industry as part of the fifth anniversary of Celebrating Women in Satellite…

The University of Texas System and NASA's Johnson Space Center have signed a Space Act Agreement that will expand opportunities for research collaboration, workforce development, and educational engagement in support of space exploration and…

The University of Texas at Austin has long been a leader in space research and exploration, making groundbreaking contributions that continue to shape the future of the final frontier. In honor of World Space Week, here are some of UT’s greatest…

Lori Magruder, an associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (ASE/EM) at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected to the grade of associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and…

A first-of-its-kind satellite just launched into space to map our planet at an unrivaled level of detail, and Texas Engineer Jingyi “Ann” Chen will play a key role in the direction of this ambitious mission.

Congratulations to Dr. Lori Magruder's collaborative team from the Center for Space Research, Oregon State University, and NASA on their recent paper, “Analysis and Accuracy Assessment of a New Global Nearshore ICESat-2 Bathymetric Data Product,”…

Despite all the technological evolution in navigation, waters just off coastal shores around the globe have remained a black box. That is, until researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and Oregon State University developed a new…

The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Space Research (UT/CSR) Education and Outreach Department has received funding as a sub-awardee through The Aldrin Foundation. This award was made possible through the Texas Space Commission’s Space…

NASA’s National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) released the ATLAS/ICESat-2 Level 3A Along Track Coastal and Nearshore Bathymetry (ATL24), Version 1 dataset, which provides global along-track coastal and…

Professor Maruthi Akella in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin has been named a VAIBHAV (Vaishvik Bharatiya Vaigyanik) fellow by the Indian Government Ministry of Science and…

The University of Texas Center for Space Research co-hosted the 2025 National Defense in Space Summit (NDSS) on February 22nd at The University of Texas at Austin.

We are pleased to announce that The University of Texas Austin Center for Space Research, Education and Outreach Department has been awarded the Texas Girls Collaborative Project 2024 Educational Organization Stand Up for STEM Award.

Maruthi Akella reached for the stars. Now his name is among them. The professor in the Cockrell School's Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics recently had an asteroid named for him. It's a rare honor that includes a rigorous…

New research provides a more accurate picture of future flood risks along important parts of the Gulf Coast that have been subtly sinking, or subsiding, for years, largely undetected. The project, led by researchers from The University of Texas at…

Congratulations to the STEM Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) high school internship program at UT/CSR, an integral part of the NASA Science Mission Directorate’s Science Activation program, for receiving the 2024 American Geophysical Union…

Srinivas Bettadpur, a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin, is the recipient of the 2024 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Charles A. Whitten Medal.

The SpaceCraft for Optical-based Position Estimation (SCOPE) is the newest mission at the TSL, and is funded by the NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate, as well as the Small Satellite Technology Program. The project’s Principal Investigators…

Congratulations to Shauna Pendleton on receiving the 2024 Staff Excellence Award from the Cockrell School of Engineering. Texas Engineering honored their exceptional staff members with the prestigious Staff Excellence Awards ceremony held in the…

Lori Magruder, an associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (ASE/EM), has been named director of the Center for Space Research (CSR), effective Jan. 1. Prior to becoming director, she served as…

The NASA STEM Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) High School Summer Internship Program had the opportunity to select 4 students to conduct research in microgravity on a Zero-G G-Force One aircraft last year. Many applications were received for the…

2023 NASA SEES Intern, Zoe Zlatic, was featured on Fox2Now on February 21, 2024 to talk about the experiment she will be conducting on a Zero-G flight scheduled for March 8, 2024. Zoe, along with three other 2023 NASA SEES Interns, were selected…

The Center for Space Research hosted the Quantum Networking Event on February 7, 2024 as part of the kickoff activities of the Quantum Pathways Institute (QPI), a NASA-sponsored Space Technology Research Institute.

The Center for Space Research hosted a Technical Showcase on January 23, 2024. The event highlighted the various research projects at the Center, and provided the opportunity for CSR’s research staff, students, and invited guests to engage and…

NASA SEES Alumni, Zoe Koniaris, was one of 47 students selected for the 2024 Brooke Owens Fellowship. Zoe was part of the 2019 SEES Mars Exploration Team and is currently a Junior studying Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University.…

For the last few decades, a series of satellites have used lasers to radically improve our understanding of Earth and how it is changing over time. This technology, satellite laser altimetry, has quantified data on critical climate issues such as…

“Monitoring Earth’s climate variables with satellite laser altimetry” , was recently published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment by the Center’s Lori Magruder and Amy Neuenschwander on how satellite laser altimetry has provided critical…

Riya Tyagi, a 2023 NASA SEES intern on the Earth Systems Explorer team, was selected as a finalist in the 2024 Regeneron Science Talent Search. The finalists represent 36 schools across 19 states and are competing for more than $1.8, with a top…

Four NASA SEES Alumni were announced as top 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2024. The Regeneron Science Talent Search scholars were selected from 2,162 applications received from 712 high schools across 46 states, Guam, Puerto…

“Monitoring Coastal Waves with ICESat-2“, was recently published in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering by the Center’s James Dietrich and Matt Holwill characterizing coastal waves with ICESat-2.

A new paper, “Modeling Uncertainty of GEDI Clear-Sky Terrain Height Retrievals Using a Mixture Density Network”, was recently published in the Special Issue of Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Modeling for Nature-Based Solutions by The University of…

The Center’s Dr. Byron Tapley was featured on KXAN News Science segment: “Gravity holes: How UT’s experimental mission uncovered secrets of our planet” discussing how “observing the polar ice cap melt turned out to be critically important for…

Three faculty members in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics were recognized with U.S. Navy Impact Influencer Awards at a ceremony held in the Aerospace Engineering Building at The University of Texas at Austin on Oct.…