News Archive

NASA Astronaut Dr. Greg Chamitoff Spoke with Faculty and Students
Friday 08/17/2012

Dr. Greg Chamitoff, NASA Astronaut and Adjunct Faculty with Texas A&M’s Aerospace Engineering Department, spoke with faculty, staff and students last week about his travels in space. Dr. Chamitoff's presentation titled “Completing Assembly of the International Space Station – The Last Mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour” included slides and video footage from the last flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavor.

Mortari to Speak at ESTEL Conference In Rome, Italy
Friday 08/10/2012

Daniele Mortari, a professor with Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, will present the invited lecture “Flower Constellations for Future Space Missions” at the ESTEL Conference in Rome, Italy on October 4, 2012. This international conference on Communication and Navigation Technologies and it is sponsored by IEEE, European Space Agency, and European Satellite Operator Association. Mortari will present the most recent findings in the area of constellation design by showing solutions for current and futuristic applications.

Removing Space Debris: TAMU Sweeper with Sling-Sat
Friday 08/03/2012

Low Earth Orbit is over cluttered with rogue objects and collision shrapnel that are a constant threat to spacecraft. A traditional satellite mission to go capture each object is not efficient enough to make an appreciable difference due to the high cost of orbit transfers. Many alternate proposals are politically controversial, costly, or dependent on further technological advances; therefore, they are not adequate solutions at present, and none have been proven feasible!

Launch Attempt Tonight to Include Aggie Satellites
Thursday 08/02/2012

Tonight 3 August 2012, a second launch attempt will be made out of Vandenberg AFB in California for NROL-36, an Atlas-5 carrying a major classified spacecraft and 11 other small satellites.

Donzis Paper Featured as a "Focus on Fluids" Article in "Journal of Fluid Mechanics"
Tuesday 07/31/2012

A recent article co-authored by Diego Donzis, assistant professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, was featured as a Focus on Fluids article in the June 2012 issue of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

SpaceX Team Includes Aggies
Friday 07/20/2012

A group of Aggies work at one of the leading private space companies in the world, Space Exploration Technologies - SpaceX. The company builds, tests, and launches rockets and capsules to further scientific research in space and space exploration.

Dr. Bowersox and Dr. North Awarded Defense University Research Instrumentation (DURIP) Grant
Thursday 07/12/2012

Dr. Rodney Bowersox from the department of Aerospace Engineering and Dr. Simon North from the department of Chemistry have been awarded a grant from the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP).

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