UAH Electric Propulsion Club seeks patent for experimental ion thruster developed by EPC students; presents at International Astronautical Congress in Italy
Jan 07, 2025
The Electric Propulsion Club (EPC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), recently traveled to Milan, Italy, to present STARGATE, an experimental gridded ion thruster developed by the group, at the 75th International Astronautical Congre...
UAH to host second annual Business of Space Conference February 23-25; Registration is now open
Dec 17, 2024
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) College of Business (COB) will host the second annual Business of Space Conference to focus on creating solutions through partnerships while addressing both opportunities and barriers. ...
UAH plasma researcher follows up first-of-its-kind study of Alfvén waves with groundbreaking new findings, possibly key to mystery of solar corona heating
Nov 13, 2024
Syed Ayaz, a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has published a paper in Scientific Reports that builds on an earlier first-of-its-kind study that examined kinetic Alfvén waves. ...
National Space Club taps UAH Eminent Scholar Dr. Gary Zank to receive 2024 Distinguished Science Award
Nov 05, 2024
The National Space Club (NSC), Huntsville Chapter, has selected Dr. Gary Zank at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to receive the 2024 Distinguished Science Award. ...
EXCLUSIVE: Former UAH student returns for inspirational donation
Sep 12, 2024
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Blake Parker, a NASA engineer returned Wednesday to the campus where his space exploration dreams began to provide a special gift for UAH’s Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR). The 2013 UAH graduate...
CSPAR gains two scale models of spacecraft crucial to its work, courtesy of UAH alumnus
Sep 12, 2024
Two scale models of spacecraft that provide research data to The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) have joined a Parker Solar Probe model on prominent display at CSPAR offices in Cramer...
UAH researcher wins NASA FINESST scholarship to study connection between solar wind turbulence and energetic particles
Aug 30, 2024
Ashok Silwal, a doctoral candidate and graduate research assistant at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has been chosen to receive a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Scie...
UAH TERMINUS student team successfully launches NASA RockSat-X payload into space
Aug 28, 2024
Team TERMINUS from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, successfully launched a student-developed payload aboard a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket that featured two experiments designe...
UAH researcher wins $750K EPSCoR
Aug 05, 2024
Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has won a $750,000 Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) award to support STROBE-X, a planned $1 billion probe-class NASA observatory that aims to unl...
First-time UAH study sheds new light on mystery of why solar corona is so much hotter than Sun’s surface
Jul 26, 2024
In a new study published in the The Astrophysical Journal, a researcher from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, explores critical aspects of a phenomenon called kinetic Alfvén waves (KAW) to ...
