Brian Argrow News

  • X-15 plane
    “Boost-glide,” the method of using rocket pro­pulsion to achieve high speed before an un­powered glide, is an apt metaphor for U.S. investment in hypersonics research and education. Recent interviews with government leaders and experts suggest that the U.S. no longer has the luxury of exploring hyperson­ic flight as an unchallenged...
  • Brian Argrow
    Brian Argrow is a professor and chair of Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. He was the founding director of the Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles (RECUV) and is a former associate dean for
  • Brian Argrow
    Brian Argrow, the new chair of Smead Aerospace, talks Mars, drones, integrity and why he always books a window seat. If you could visit any planet in our solar system, which would you pick? Mars, of course. When I see images from the surface,
  • Three people working on a UAV.
    CU Boulder engineers, scientists and students are teaming up with Black Swift Technologies of Boulder to use unmanned aircraft in the coming weeks to measure water moisture at a test irrigation farm in Yuma, Colorado. The testing will take place
  • A previous balloon launch.
    Future unmanned hypersonic aircraft may ultimately owe part of their success to University of Colorado Boulder atmospheric research. A consortium of universities led by the CU Boulder Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering
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