Highflight
2025 Edition
Onboard decision-making record
A&A researchers are the first to meet an elusive NASA requirement of subsecond onboard decisions for planetary landings.
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Honoring three trailblazing women in aeronautics engineering
Honoring Rose Lunn, Eleanor Dickson and Luella Armstrong: Pioneering UW engineers who shaped aerospace history.
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Revolutionizing space rendezvous: Testing a groundbreaking precision tool for Blue Origin
Research for Blue Origin on April Tags aims to advance precise space rendezvous.
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A&A’s DBF soars to best finish ever
Design Build Fly secured an impressive 3rd place finish at the AIAA competition with their innovative aircraft.
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Professor Srinivasan receives nation’s highest early-career scientific honor
Professor Bhuvana Srinivasan receives the Presidential Early Career Award for plasma physics research.
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Sunflowers architecting sound: Novel approach to reduce noise pollution
NSF funds research on nature-inspired materials for superior noise control and acoustic wave absorption.
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Combining machine learning with a mathematical theory to enhance autonomy
PhD student combines machine learning and optimal transport theory to enhance uncertainty management in autonomous systems.
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A&A welcomes three new faculty members, boosting space systems capabilities
Dorn, Nisser, and Vijay join A&A, enhancing space systems engineering experience in structures and controls.
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In memoriam: Anita Gale (1951-2024), A&A Distinguished Alumna and space pioneer
Remembering Anita Gale (1951-2024): Distinguished alumna, aerospace innovator, and champion of space education.
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The fluid mechanics anomaly we can’t dismiss anymore
Sounding the alarm on asymmetric flows, long dismissed as experimental errors, as critical to predict for flight safety.
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Breaking through plasma’s chaos for stellar science and fusion energy
Daniel Alex uses complex simulations to understand plasma instabilities that could unlock clean fusion energy.
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Origami manufacturing technique leads to breakthrough for softer impacts
Jimmy O’Neil proves origami tubes deliver softer impacts and breaks a manufacturing barrier with broad applications.
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A&A makes a RUCKUS in search and rescue
Undergrad Evelyn Madewell tells us about a new drone-enhanced system for wilderness search and rescue.
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