Steven Collicott was selected to receive an award by NASA's Flight Opportunities program giving him the chance to fly into suborbital space and back on a Virgin Galactic craft while conducting a zero-gravity experiment.
AAE Professors Kathleen Howell and Carolin Frueh are working on a U.S. Air Force contract to develop software that is, essentially, a space dashboard, a 3D space situational awareness portal to track objects and analyze data.
In a paper published to Frontiers in Energy Research, AAE researchers have analyzed a significant amount of data to help try and answer one key question: How much could SAF actually reduce commercial aviation’s CO2 emissions by the middle of this century?
A paper by AAE Professor Tim Pourpoint and his team was selected for the 2021 AIAA Liquid Propulsion Best Paper Award from the Propulsion and Energy Forum held virtually this past August.
Daniel DeLaurentis and Cesare Guariniello are developing System-of-Systems tools that address high-level, hierarchical features of complex space systems, such as multiple stakeholders, uncertain objectives, developmental/operational risks, and flexibility of space mission architectures.