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Last Updated: Jun 12 2018 · 7:46 p.m.

The SBIRS GEO Flight 3 satellite awaits launch from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (Courtesy of ULA)

Watch ULA’s first launch of 2017: A global surveillance satellite for the Air Force

Centennial-based United Launch Alliance is scheduled to shoot a high priority global surveillance satellite into space.

Inigo San Milan, director of the sports performance program at the CU Sports Medicine Center, uses a new hand-held ultrasound technology that enables trainers, athletes and physicians, for the first time, to measure glycogen levels inside muscle in real time on pro cyclist Lachlan Norris. (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado)

CU Boulder developed a noninvasive way for athletes to measure muscle energy content

Until recently, the only way to determine glycogen levels was though a surgical biopsy.