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. ...

Nuclear thermal propulsion research wins graduate student AAS Molly Macauley Award

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...

Dr. Shery Welsh, UAH PhD in Materials Sciences.

Dr. Shery Welsh accepts position as Director, Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Jun 09, 2020

University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) alumna, Dr. Shery Welsh, who earned her PhD in Materials Sciences, has been tapped as Director, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in Arlington, Virginia. ...

PRC Graduate Recognition 12/04/2019

Mentoring Lunch - Feb. 28, 2020

May 07, 2020

Dr. Dale Thomas, Deputy Director of the Propulsion Research Center, Director of the Alabama Space Grant Consortium, and Professor/Eminent Scholar, Industrial & Systems Engineering and Engineering Management served as the guest speaker at February's m...

collage of graduate students, faculty, and staff

PRC Graduate Recognition

Apr 27, 2020

Congratulations to all PRC graduates, we are extremely proud of you. All the best to you in the future. ...

Rocket Team

Student team’s NASA Student Launch rocket and rover effort is successful

Mar 18, 2020

A student team at UAH successfully launched a rocket with a rover as its payload in a national NASA Student Launch that was shortened by the COVID-19 virus. ...

PRC group

Redstone Arsenal and Missle Defense Agency Engineers toured PRC Laboratories

Mar 09, 2020

On February 26, a group of Redstone Arsenal and Missile Defense Agency engineers took part in a VIP tour offered by Dr. Frederick. PRC graduate student Amit Patel, and test engineer Tony Hall presented the live test-firing of a rocket engine, while J...