Michaela Hemming

Michaela Hemming has her choice of three national graduate engineering scholarships

Apr 12, 2021

A graduate student in aerospace systems engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been accepted to a trifecta of competitive national graduate scholarships. ...

Collage of students

PRC Graduate Recognition

Jan 14, 2021

It is our pleasure to present to you the PRC Summer and Spring 2020 graduates. ...

Dr. Robert Frederick

DoD grant for new equipment boosts PRC’s hypersonics fuel research

Jan 19, 2021

Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, plan to research new fuels for hypersonic vehicles once chromatography/mass spectroscopy equipment arrives later this year at the Propulsion Re...

Rotating Detonation Engine

Webinar RDE - Nov. 12, 2020

Dec 21, 2020

MAE master's student Evan Unruh proudly presented his Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) and explained the process that led up to the first successful test-firing at Propulsion Research Center. ...

Space hardware club

SHC’s Tartarus liquid-fueled rocket team working its way to coming engine test

Nov 02, 2020

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Space Hardware Club (SHC) is working steadily toward a latter November test of the liquid-fueled engine for its ambitious Tartarus rocket design, even as the COVID pandemic has thrown wrinkles into the ...

Propulsion center

PRC Virtual Meeting - Oct 16, 2020

Oct 20, 2020

Dr. Robert Frederick, Director of the Propulsion Research Center, hosted a virtual meeting featuring PRC's graduate student's production history. ...

Department of Defense Logo.

UAH awarded $3.7 million Department of Defense grant

Sep 24, 2020

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has been awarded a $3.7 million Department of Defense (DoD) grant under the Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program (DMCSP) by the Office of Economic...

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. ...