News & Highlights

OreSat 0.5 beeps and blinks in space!

OreSat 0.5 is a 2U (20x10x10 cm) small satellite developed in collaboration between the ESI and Portland State University (PSU). After a five-year development, OreSat 0.5 was launched from...

Posted: January 6, 2025, 3:03 PM

Martins and McBride promote ESI at UMBC's GRIT-X event

The academic flagship event of UMBC's Homecoming celebration is GRIT-X, a series of TED-style talks given by accomplished UMBC faculty. This year, the organizers invited prior GRIT-X speakers to a...

Posted: November 12, 2024, 1:52 PM

NASA GSFC feature on ESI research engineer Carissa Arillo

ESI research engineer Carissa Arillo recounts her time supporting the NASA Plankton-Aerosol-Cloud-ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in this new Conversations with...

Posted: November 8, 2024, 2:50 PM

ESI Flies High in NASA's PACE-PAX Field Campaign

From August to October 2024, the Earth and Space Institute (ESI) leads the AirHARP2 participation during the NASA PACE Post-launch Airborne eXperiment (PACE-PAX) field campaign at Edwards AFB, CA....

Posted: September 25, 2024, 1:44 PM

PACE-PAX Validation Experiment is underway!

NASA's PACE satellite launched in early February 2024, to study the health of the Earth's oceans, land, and atmosphere. As data has been collected, the next step is to validate the measurements...

Posted: September 11, 2024, 5:24 PM

ESI scientists participate in PACE Hack Week at UMBC!

From August 4 - 8, 2024, PACE Hack Week was held at UMBC in the ILSB, with 41 participants (from 89 applicants). Ten people traveled from abroad, and six were associated with NOAA.  Per Dr. Jeremy...

Posted: August 16, 2024, 3:26 PM