Georgia Tech CubeSat Propellant Innovation Set to Transform Space Missions
Professor Álvaro Romero-Calvo and a team of Georgia Tech engineers have been selected by NASA for a TechFlights award — an effort managed by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, which demonstrates technologies through suborbital and...
Solar Geoengineering Could Save 400,000 Lives a Year, Georgia Tech Study Says
When it comes to finding solutions to climate change, there’s no shortage of technologies vying for attention, from renewable energy to electric vehicles to nuclear energy. One such contender, solar geoengineering, is favored by proponents who say it could quickly...
Georgia Tech Student Named Marshall Scholarship Recipient
James Shin, an electrical engineering major from Hoschton, Georgia, has received a 2025 Marshall Scholarship. He will study physics at the University of Cambridge and public policy at the University of Oxford to advance engineering in space. Shin has coupled his...
In a Very Close Galaxy: How Georgia Tech Researchers Use Earth Analogs to Understand Space
From deserts in Arizona to salty lakes in Canada, these environments give scientists an idea of what Mars and Jupiter’s moons might be like. The surface is covered with fine ash. The lava fields stretch for miles, punctuated only by basalt mountains. But life could be...
Woodruff School Graduate Student Receives Travel Award for Analog Space Mission
Graduate student Lillian Tso, ME 2023, was selected as an analog astronaut for the Asclepios IV mission, a training exercise that simulated a space crew deployed to the moon. The Asclepios project is a program of analog missions designed by students for students under...
Team All Hands on Dec Takes Top Prize for Best Aerospace Project at the Capstone Design Expo
Team All Hands on Dec is on a mission to uncover the mysteries of the moon. The team won $1,000 and the top honors for Best Aerospace Engineering (AE) project at Georgia Tech’s Fall 2024 Capstone Design Expo held in the McCamish Pavilion on December 2. Altogether, 107...
College of Sciences Welcomes New Astrophysics Major, Minor
The School of Physics will launch the new B.S. in Astrophysics program in summer 2025. This new major is the latest addition to the College of Sciences’ academic offerings and responds to increased student demand for courses and research...
From Mars to the Stars: James Wray Wins Simons Fellowship to Study Interstellar Objects
In 2017, a long, oddly shaped asteroid passed by Earth. Called ‘Oumuamua, it was the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system, but it wasn’t an isolated incident — less than two years later, in 2019, a second interstellar object (ISO) was...
Space Race: Georgia Tech’s Aspiring Astronauts
Jud Ready always wanted to be an astronaut. “From first grade forward, that’s what I planned to do,” said Ready, principal research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and adjunct professor in the School of Materials Science and...
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS: A Halloween Visitor from the Oort Cloud
The comet made a close approach to Earth around Halloween, offering a rare and spectacular celestial event. Read the article by Dr. James Wray, Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology...