Evan Unruh stnading near a Rotating Deotonation Engine.

Rotating Detonation Engine test-fired for first time at UAH’s Johnson Research Center

Sep 16, 2020

A new kind of rocket engine has been test-fired for the first time at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System. ...

Jason Cassibry

LSI grant funds further UAH fusion propulsion research

Sep 08, 2020

Fusion propulsion research to enable rapid deep space travel has landed a professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, a $143,000 inaugural Interstellar Initiative Grants award from the Lim...

Dr. Gabe Xu

DOE-funded UAH directed plasma research may advance pulsed fusion propulsion systems

Aug 20, 2020

A professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been awarded a one-year, $98,930 grant by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for plasma research that could advance pulsed fusion propulsion for spacecraft. ...

Group photo of student team members holding rocket.

UAH student rocket team takes third overall, first in safety at NASA Student Launch

Jul 27, 2020

A student rocket team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) earned first place in project safety and third place overall in competition at a COVID-shortened national NASA Student Launch. ...

David Howard

David E. Howard inducted into Inventors Hall of Fame

Jun 24, 2020

University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH) alumnus David E. Howard has been inducted into the NASA Technology Transfer Program’s Inventors Hall of Fame (IHOF). Howard worked as a civil servant for NASA at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) for 34...

Students and children standing around the Mobile STEM Roller Coaster in an elementary classroom.

UAH seniors designing new STEM tools for economically challenged K-12 students

Jun 16, 2020

Two teams of senior students in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Product Realization (MAE 490) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are designing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) tool products to engage and inspire e...

Dennis Nikitaev

Nuclear thermal propulsion research wins graduate student AAS Molly Macauley Award

Jun 10, 2020

Research on seeded hydrogen in nuclear thermal rocket engines has won a graduate research assistant at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) one of two 2020 American Astronautical Society (AAS) Molly Macauley Awards for Science and Engineer...

Five people standing on an offroad vehicle maneuvering a surveillance balloon on Skinwalker Ranch

UAH scientists brave curses, spooky anomalies to unravel secrets at Skinwalker Ranch

May 26, 2020

Two intrepid explorers from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) visited an extraordinary place last summer to perform experiments for a research team participating in a docu-series called “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.” ...

James Miller

UAH Alumnus Elected as Chairman of NAC Executive Committee

May 15, 2020

James Miller, an alumnus of UAH master’s program in Operations Research, has been elected as chairman of the National Armaments Consortium (NAC) Executive Committee. ...

ASGC

ASGC cube satellite would explore using lunar soil as human radiation shield

May 07, 2020

Science aboard an Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) student-led cube satellite mission called AEGIS could be valuable to developing future human outposts on the moon and in space travel to Mars if NASA gives the go-ahead for a 2022 flight. ...