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Alumnus Payam Banazadeh is the CEO and founder of Capella Space, which just became the first U..S. company to launch a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite to space.

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Alumnus Alan Stern answered questions about NASA's New Horizons mission on Reddit. The team is preparing for a New Year's Day  encounter with "Ultima Thule," a Kuiper Belt object, which will mark the farthest spacecraft flyby in history.

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In this opinion piece published in the San Antonio Express, Professor Luis Sentis discusses the value of robots that will "enrich the human experience."

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UT Austin and Firefly Academy have partnered to establish Firefly@UT — a $1 million, multi-year program will offer UT students the opportunity to design, develop and assemble an industrial-scale rocket capable of launching to the edge of space.

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Alumnus Karl Schulz is part of a UT Austin research team that was awarded a $1.2M Smart and Connnected Health grant to support research using smartphones to monitor 1,000 pregnant women in the Austin area.

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Karen Willcox and J. Tinsley Oden are leading efforts on a joint university-DOE program to create the "AEOLUS" center for applied mathematics research in experimental design, optimal control, and learning.

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Professor Noel Clemens, along with authors Dr. Leon Vanstone and Joe Lingren, have been awarded the AIAA High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Best Paper award.

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Chad Landis has been awarded the ASE/EM LUNAR Council Teaching Award for 2018 for making a positive impact on students’ educational experience through superior teaching.

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Three ASE/EM faculty members, David Goldstein, Greg Rodin and John Foster, received ICES 2018 W. A. "Tex" Moncrief Grand Challenge Awards.

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To kick of the fall semester, UAV Austin, UT’s unmanned aerial vehicle team, hosted a three-week long training camp to help prospective members and the general student body become more familiar with engineering concepts. 

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This summer, Sophy Wu, a second-year Ph.D. student studying aerospace engineering, conducted fieldwork at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Toolik Field Station.

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Two years of hard work has finally paid off for members of the Longhorn Rocketry Association student organization who have been designing and building a new hybrid rocket engine test facility.

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Professor Noel Clemens was invited to give a series of lectures as part of the prestigious Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series.

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Mercury, a biped robot developed by Dr. Luis Sentis and his students, can maintain balance when hit unexpectedly - much like a human would when bumped into on a crowded street.

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This summer the Texas Aerial Robotics team brought home second place in the American venue after participating in their second annual International Aerial Robotics Competition held in Atlanta.