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Space Lighthouses: Small Satellites Will Someday Help Navigate Spacecraft to the Moon
A new agreement with NASA paves the way for UT Austin researchers and the Texas Spacecraft Laboratory to build and launch a CubeSat that will help spacecraft determine their location in relationship to the Earth and, eventually, the moon. Photo courtesy NASA/JPL-CalTech
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AFOSR Research Collaboration in Outer Space
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Personalizing Cancer Care with Digital Twins of Brain Tumors
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Curtailing Unhealthy Impacts of Steel Production: DOE Earthshot Program
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Proposed Changes to Texas Ship Channel Depth has Minimal Storm Surge Effect
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Introduction to Machine Learning Course Offers Students Vital Skills for Job Competitiveness
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Center for Space Research Outreach Program Wins NASA Award
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Alumnus Robert Crippen Recipient of 2023 Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy
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Faculty Honors
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Todd Humphreys Honored for GPS Work with ION Kepler Award
ASE/EM Faculty Recognized with Navy Impact Influencer Awards
 
Student Spotlights
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Maritza Miranda: Wings Club Foundation Scholarship
Yifan Rao: Society of Engineering Science Future Faculty Symposium Award
 
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KXAN News Features Byron Tapley | Gravity Holes: How UT’s Experimental Mission Uncovered Secrets of Our Planet
 
Noteworthy

  • UT Austin was named No. 2 Institution for Entrepreneurship Studies.
  • To the Moon: New research aims to establish safe and reliable mission operations through cislunar space.
  • Oden Institute celebrates 50 years in interdisciplinary leadership.
  • Computational Mechanics Conference celebrates Thomas J.R. Hughes's 80th Birthday.
  • J-P Clarke, Chief Innovation Officer of Universal Hydrogen, was issued a U.S. Patent for Systems and Methods for Storing, Transporting and Using Hydrogen.
  • Nanshu Lu has been named a 2023 Highly Cited Researcher.
  • Team Cosmic, a group of ASE students, was selected to participate in NASA's Spacesuit User Interface Technologies 2024 Challenge.
  • ASE seniors present their capstone design project at the 2023 International Astronautical Congress in Baku, Azerbaijan.
  • WingzStop: Aircraft design seniors perform a successful end-of-year fly-off.
  • Todd Humphreys comments on the new "spoofing" attacks on commercial flights in this VICE story.
  • Moriba Jah discusses the future of space exploration and the depths of a circular space economy on WIRED's Let's Dies on Mars panel.
 
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