Aerospace News
5/13/2013 | Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin and the MDA Conduct Successful Test of New Air-Launched Missile Target Prototype
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have successfully tested a prototype air-launched Extended Medium-range Ballistic Missile (eMRBM) target at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.
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4/23/2013 | Allison Craddock, Aerospace Social Media Manager
SpaceX's Grasshopper Rocket Breaks its Own Record
SpaceX’s Grasshopper rocket flew 820ft, hovered, and landed – more than tripling its last leap. The 10-story Vertical Takeoff and Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle is testing the technologies needed to return a rocket back to Earth intact. While most rockets burn up in the atmosphere during reentry, SpaceX's rockets are being designed to return to the launch pad for a vertical landing. Congrats to the many Aero Alumni at SpaceX!
4/1/2013 | Michigan Engineering
Falling to Earth - The Autobiography of Alfred Worden
Al Worden, America's first astronaut to perform a Deep Space EVA on the return from the moon aboard Apollo 15 in 1971, shares his memoires in his new autobiography, Falling to Earth. The book can be purchased online or at your local bookstore.
Read more, visit alworden.com/fallen.
12/13/2012 | Michigan Engineering
Ensure a talented space program, Zurbuchen tells a congressional hearing
Aerospace Engineering Professor and Associate Dean Thomas Zurbuchen told a House committee that as Congress looks at NASA's mission, the number-one priority should be people and their know-how.
11/5/2012 | Michigan Engineering
A heart-powered pacemaker
U-M engineering researchers Daniel Inman and Amin Karami have designed a device that harvests energy from the reverberation of heartbeats through the chest and converts it to electricity to run a pacemaker or an implanted defibrillator. It could one day eliminate battery-replacement surgery.
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10/16/2012 | Michigan Engineering
Computer-driven airplane optimization stretches its wings
A Michigan Engineering professor and his students developed a program that refines airplane designs, with the potential to significantly reduce jet fuel consumption.
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10/6/2012 | Michigan Engineering
Michigan Engineers excited to be part of historic launch
As the first contracted cargo resupply flight by a private company makes its way to the International Space Station, the Michigan Engineering students and alumni involved are excited to be a part of history.
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10/5/2012 | Michigan Engineering
Harvesting energy from the heart
A new power scheme for cardiac pacemakers turns to an unlikely source: vibrations from heartbeats themselves.
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8/7/2012 | Michigan Engineering
Win brings MAAV one step closer to mission impossible
The Michigan Autonomous Aerial Vehicles student team may not have accomplished the mission impossible set forth in the International Aerial Robotics Competition this year, but they did take home the gold.
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7/17/2012 | Michigan Engineering
Congratulations to Veera Sundararaghavan!
Assistant Professor Veera Sundararaghavan has been recommended for the Young Investigator Award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
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7/17/2012 | Michigan Engineering
Benjamin Longmier joins Aerospace Engineering this fall
Benjamin Longmier will help develop the next generation of advanced interplanetary thrusters at Michigan.
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7/17/2012 | Michigan Engineering
Mirko Gamba joins Aerospace Engineering this fall
Mirko Gamba brings his expertise in high-speed flows, turbulence, combustion, experimental methods and advanced diagnostic techniques to Michigan.
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7/16/2012 | Michigan Engineering
Michigan Engineering acquires Peach Mountain Observatory
A second-hand telescope will serve as a satellite communications receiver that is hundreds of times more sensitive than those currently in use by aerospace and space science engineers.
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6/1/2012 | Michigan Engineering
Michigan engineering alumni help to develop the SpaceX Dragon
The first cargo-carrying private spacecraft, the SpaceX Dragon, made its way back to Earth Thursday, and it was helped along the way by Michigan Engineering alumni.
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