Sandia-developed solar cell technology reaches space on board small satellite
mPower Technology’s DragonSCALES was initially developed at the Labs to reduce the cost of creating solar technology and increase its efficiencies. Future projects may take the technology as far as the moon.
Rockets, hurricanes and Kauai enchiladas
Range chief reflects on 41-year commute to tropical paradise
Lunar eclipse
Lunar eclipse
Sandia deputy director to head national aeronautics institute
Laura McGill to replace Labs’ deputy chief research officer as AIAA’s president
Largest aerospace society honors Sandia researcher as ‘Engineer of Year’
‘Jack-of-all-trades’ improves future spacefaring calculations
Sandia contributes to the Mars 2020 mission
Sandia contributes to the Mars 2020 mission
Z machine probes super-Earth atmospheres
A step in the search for other life in the galaxy
NEOWISE Comet comes by for a visit
Labs Photojournalist Randy Montoya made a very early morning trek out to Sandia’s Solar Tower to capture this image of the NEOWISE Comet.
Engineers teach Stanford 3D printing students, virtually
Sandia engineers Bradley Jared and Nick Leathe exposed more than a dozen freshman students from a 3D printing class at Stanford University to some of Sandia’s additive-manufacturing capabilities in a May 20 online class.
Armoring satellites to survive, operate through attacks
Researchers at Sandia launched a seven-year mission campaign this month to develop the science, technology and architecture needed for autonomous satellite protection systems. The campaign, called STARCS, will fund dozens of Laboratory Directed Research and Development projects.