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Co-Directors Kristi Morgansen and Saadia Pekkanen explain the need for the Space Policy and Research Center and the unique advantage the UW provides.

A research team spanning three universities led by A&A professor Behçet Açıkmeşe received a total of $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation to leverage insights from autonomous missions to Mars to advance humanitarian applications here on Earth.

A&A's Professor Dana Dabiri is co-hosting the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics in Seattle.

Associate professor Jinkyu Yang and a team of researchers have received a two-year, $1.7 million National Science Foundation grant to study coral growth.

A fellowship brought Mohammad Al Jarrah to A&A after a difficult decision to leave the Royal Jordanian Air Force.

A&A alumna Luella Mae Armstrong (class of 1951) won the Pathfinder Award in Engineering from the Museum of Flight.

A&A's Uri Shumlak has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for his Z-pinch research.

A&A’s Sam Reissmann is leading the UW Formula Motorsports aerodynamics team this year.

Fred Ribe was a pioneer in fusion energy research in the UW nuclear engineering department.

A&A professor Tom Jarboe explains to CNN the breakthrough on the theory of sunspots coming out of the UW spheromak research.

A University of Washington study published this month in the journal Physics of Plasmas proposes a model of plasma motion that would explain the 11-year sunspot cycle and several other previously mysterious properties of the sun.

A&A is researching supersonic retropropulsion, a leading technique to slow down and land large spacecrafts on Mars.


Audacy CEO and A&A alum Ralph Ewig is too young to recall live Apollo 11 coverage, but its influence on him was great.

In the 50th anniversary year of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, A&A researchers are designing rocket legs inspired by Japanese origami.

For Apollo 11's 50th anniversary, UW presents reflections by those who were inspired to work toward a future in space.

SARP, the UW rocketry team, clinched the top spot as the 2019 Judge’s Choice and Overall Winner with its hybrid rocket.

The SARP team took the Judge’s Choice and Overall Winner Award at the largest collegiate rocket engineering contest.

A&A's composites research and industry collaborations to receive a boost through BARC award from Washington state.

WM Launch Services won the Perkins Coie Best Innnovation/Technology prize at the 2019 Dempsey Startup Competition. A&A graduate students Finn van Donkelaar and James Penna and alum Casey Dunn founded the startup to develop a more efficient space launch system for large payloads.

A&A remembers George Jeffs, an aerospace legend from the Apollo missions to the development of GPS satellites.

KWT’s student crew eases the transition from the old DAQ to a new one, a six-month process.

Husky Robotics competed in the University Rover Challenge (URC), an international event that accepted 36 teams with a goal of showcasing designs for the next generation of Mars rovers.

Professor Jinkyu Yang’s research team in the LEMS Lab is designing and fabricating origami-inspired aerospace structures.