Future Rocket Innovators
NASA has named the winners of the 2020 Student Launch competition, in which 54 teams competed in building, testing, flying and perfecting rockets.
“This year’s...
Aerojet Completes Propulsion Hardware for Moon Flights
Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed all of its propulsion hardware for the first crewed flight of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. The...
Report: Airports have $5 Billion Economic Impact on Alabama
Alabama’s airports are estimated at a total spending output impact of $5 billion in 2019 on the state’s economy. In a recent report conducted...
Test Success for Battlefield of the Future
Huntsville-based space and defense contractor Dynetics just completed a successful test of two small satellite payloads that promise to be key components of what...
Defense Orders $150M More Ballistics from Boeing
The Defense Department has ordered four more ballistic missiles from Boeing at a cost of $150 million.
The missiles are part of the so-called missile...
Amazon Launches Space Division
Amazon Web Services launched a new business segment last week dedicated to serving the aerospace and satellite industry. This follows other aerospace moves this...
Airbus Announces Layoff of 15,000
Airbus has announced plans to lay off 15,000 workers from its facilities around the world, citing a 40 percent drop in commercial aircraft business...
SLS Giant Step Closer to Moon Missions
Engineers at NASA have completed the Space Launch System rocket’s structural testing for the Artemis lunar missions. The first Artemis mission will take humans...
Huntsville Systems Engineer Walks into a Bar….
Synopsis of a feature by Katherine MacGilvray for UAH News
Faculty members from the University of Alabama in Huntsville departments of Industrial and Systems Engineering...
Great Nuclear Notions for the Long Haul
The nation's leading association of space professionals, the American Astronautical Society, has presented one of its top annual prizes to a University of Alabama...