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. ...
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...
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. ...
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
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 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. ...
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...
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. ...
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. ...
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...
