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UCLA student-built satellites studying space weather and the aurora
 

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  • 8/2014 @ Daily Bruin: Forecast From Space: Satellite built by student team may help predict magnetic storms

  • 8/2014 @ UCLA Newsroom: UCLA undergrads are first to build an entire satellite on campus

  • 9/2015 @ Daily Bruin: A Space to Dream

  • 11/2015 @ Daily Bruin: Students work with NASA to launch ELFIN satellite into space

  • 1/2016 @ Daily Bruin: Students Create Satellite for NASA

  • 2/2016 @ Daily Bruin: UCLA senior anticipates launch of first campus-built satellite 

  • 7/2016 @ UCLA Newsroom: Geophysicist Yuri Shprits leads new space weather research mission

  • 3/2017 @ Daily Bruin: New engineering club takes strides toward furthering space technology

  • 5/2017 @ Scientia: From THEMIS to ELFIN: Exploring Near Earth Space

  • 8/2017 @ SciTech Europa Quarterly: Micro-Spacecraft Constellations

  • 5/2018 @ LA Weekly: The Metal Scientist Who Rocks Out in His Free Time

  • 9/2018 @ UCLA Newsroom: UCLA students launch project that’s out of this world

  • 9/2018 @ UCLA Youtube: UCLA Sends Student-Built Satellite into Space

  • 9/2018 @ NASA.gov: NASA-funded ELFIN To Study How Electrons Get Lost

  • 9/2018 @ UCLA Newsroom: We have liftoff of student-built satellites

  • 9/2018 @ UCLA Youtube: Launch Day for UCLA’s ELFIN Satellites

  • 9/2018 @ Daily Bruin: Sky is not the limit for UCLA student-built satellite nine years in the making

  • 9/2018 @ Spaceweather.com: Student built space weather satellite targets killer electrons

  • 11/2019 @ NASA Sunspot Blog: ELFIN First Light: Where Did that Electron Come From?

  • 5/2020 @ Spacenews.com: SpaceNews magazine: Flying cubesats from home (p. 18) (PDF)

  • 3/2022 @ NASA Sunspot Blog: NASA-funded CubeSat Discovers Source of Super-fast Electron Rain

  • 3/2022 @ UCLA Newsroom: UCLA researchers discover source of super-fast ‘electron rain’

  • 9/2022 @ UCLA Newsroom: Bye, ELFIN: As UCLA’s first student-built satellites meet their fiery demise, the science lives on

 
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