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500 days in space and counting—UMBC celebrates HARP2 satellite’s incoming data and resulting discoveries
For over 500 days, the Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter 2 (HARP2), a high-tech instrument built by UMBC researchers and students, has been orbiting Earth on NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean...
Posted: September 17, 2025, 9:23 AM
From Nepal to NASA: A journey of resilience and discovery
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted lives worldwide,Greema Regmibegan her Ph.D. in UMBC’s atmospheric physics program. Studying remotely from her home in Nepal, she navigated a grueling...
Posted: August 25, 2025, 2:40 PM
5 ways UMBC partnered with NASA in 2024
UMBC is approaching 30 years of collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a partnership that largely culminates under the university’s three major cooperative...
Posted: December 13, 2024, 12:58 PM
UMBC hosts “NASA Days” event series with Goddard Space Flight Center
UMBC is collaborating with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to host an interactive, three-day event series that takes a closer look into the center’s current research activity, with...
Posted: September 13, 2024, 4:04 PM
First data from UMBC’s HARP2 instrument on NASA PACE mission goes public
Data from NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite, which will provide insight into ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate, are now available. The Plankton, Aerosol,...
Posted: April 11, 2024, 3:05 PM
UMBC scientists and engineers celebrate launch of HARP2 instrument on NASA’s PACE mission
By Anne Wainscott-Sargent The third time’s the charm. Against a calm and crisp dark night sky on Florida’s Cape Canaveral last Thursday, February 8, just after 1:30 a.m., the Plankton,...
Posted: February 16, 2024, 10:36 AM
UMBC researchers build next-gen satellite tech to examine Earth’s atmosphere
The first Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (HARP) was a nano-satellite about as big as a loaf of bread. Developed by Vanderlei Martins, professor of physics, and his team of scientists and...
Posted: October 14, 2022, 12:32 PM
NASA, Dept. of Energy grant prestigious research awards to UMBC physics Ph.D. students
Noah Sienkiewicz is working alongside NASA and UMBC colleagues to design and build HARP2, an instrument that will launch on NASA’s PACE mission in 2024. Nathan Myers is partnering with top...
Posted: July 2, 2021, 3:38 PM
Small satellite, big ambitions: UMBC’s HARP named SmallSat Mission of the Year
UMBC’s Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (HARP) Satellite, which began in Vanderlei Martins’s imagination more than a decade ago, has been flying in low-Earth orbit since February 19. It contains...
Posted: August 7, 2020, 10:41 PM
UMBC dedicates new Earth and Space Institute, building on decades of NASA collaboration
On the third floor of the UMBC Physics Building, a glass sign with crisp white lettering announces UMBC’s newest research center: the Earth and Space Institute (ESI). The institute includes a...
Posted: September 19, 2017, 9:43 PM