Turning to CubeSats in the Search for Life Thousands of Light-Years from Earth
Georgia Tech plays a starring role in NASA’s STARI mission to determine if telescope technology that studies exoplanets can be implemented in briefcase-sized spacecraft. A new NASA-funded project will have Georgia Tech aerospace engineers developing new...
Griendling Inaugural Recipient of the C. Virgil Smith Faculty Teaching Award
AE Lecturer Kelly Griendling, AE 2006, M.S. AE 2008, Ph.D. AE 2011, is the first recipient of the C. Virgil Smith Faculty Teaching Award and will receive $3,800 for her classroom. The award supports AE faculty who primarily teach at the undergraduate level and have...
Georgia Tech Space Research Institute Begins Search for Executive Director
The Space Research Institute (SRI) at Georgia Tech has initiated an internal search for its inaugural executive director. This new Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRI) will build upon the foundation laid by the Space Research Initiative. The SRI is dedicated to...
Why Does a Rocket Have to go 25,000 mph to Escape Earth?
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with its Crew Dragon capsule launches from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in January 2024. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images Why does a rocket have to go 25,000 mph (about 40,000 kilometers per hour) to escape Earth? – Bo H., age 10, Durham, New...
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...