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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

GMT mirror segment 2 undergoes final polishing processes. Photograph by Jules Zappone, Arizona Sonora News Service ©2017.

How to build a 27-foot mirror under a football stadium

Jules Zappone December 6, 2017

Beneath the east bleachers of  Arizona Stadium, the most delicate and perfected mirror-making process takes place. The University of Arizona’s Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory is famous...

Photo By: World View Enterprises

Tucson based company has new home for exploring space

TJ Gibbs March 17, 2017

By late 2018 Tucson-based World View Enterprises plans to fulfill the dreams of many by sending people into space.  World View Enterprises, a private company, is the only near-space exploration...

Engineers install the REXIS instrument onto the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in a Lockheed Martin clean room in Denver, Colorado. Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin

Instrument provides opportunities and challenges

Jorge Encinas May 4, 2016

A student-built instrument launching with an upcoming space mission to an asteroid will provide not only valuable training and experience for future aeronautical engineers, but also vital scientific...

Generated image of what the Great Magellan Telescope will look like once assembled. Image provided by GMTO (Giant Magellan Telescope Org)

UA mirror lab gets one mirror closer to observing faint objects

Jorge Encinas December 9, 2015

Astronomical observations are about to move one step closer to reaching new heights as the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab, at the University of Arizona, prepares to remove another segment of the Giant Magellan...

The first SpaceShipTwo during a glide flight over the Mojave desert. (Photo by: Virgin Galactic)

Rocketing to space comes with a hefty price tag

Morrena Villanueva November 19, 2015

Booking beachfront villas on the Amalfi Coast and vacationing on private yachts for the 1 percent will soon be replaced by trips that rocket outside of Earth's atmosphere as innovations in space tourism...

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