GASC conference will return in 2024
September 15, 2023 Organizers of this year’s inaugural and highly successful Global Autonomous Systems Conference have announced that the conference will return next year, bringing attendees ...
ACUASI completes first drone flight from Nenana to Fairbanks International Airport
By Rod Boyce
Alaska’s leading public uncrewed aircraft program made another significant advance Friday when a drone flew from the Nenana airport and landed at Fairbanks International ...
NASA awards Alaska Satellite Facility five-year, $70 million contract
By Rod Boyce
The Alaska Satellite Facility at the University of Alaska Fairbanks will continue to operate NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Center for synthetic aperture radar under ...
GDNP UARC 2022 PMR Message from the Director
Keith Dunkle Executive DirectorGeophysical Detection of Nuclear ProliferationUniversity Affiliated Research Center The GDNP UARC continues to establish solid foundations and collaborative relationships within the University ...
‘Airborne object’ response builds on UAF, military partnership
By Rod Boyce
Robert McCoy, director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, was driving to themovie theater in Fairbanks on a Saturday in mid-February when his ...
UAF researchers aiding NASA in developing Venus seismometer
By Rod Boyce
Earth has earthquakes, Venus has venusquakes. Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, working with NASA, are helping create a Venusian seismometer that ...
FAA grants wide authority to UAF unmanned aircraft center
By Rod Boyce
The Federal Aviation Administration has granted a regulatory waiver to the University of Alaska Fairbanks unmanned aircraft systems test site. The agency’s decision ...
UAF research contributes to progress on fusion energy
By Rod Boyce
Fairbanks and nuclear fusion research usually aren’t mentioned in the same sentence. But they could be. Plasma physicist David Newman at the University of ...
NASA and HAARP conclude asteroid experiment
By Rod Boyce
A powerful transmitter in remote Alaska sent long wavelength radio signals into space Tuesday with the purpose of bouncing them off an asteroid to learn ...