Aerospace Aeronautical or Astronautical Engineering

RUM team placed runner-up in NASA competition

Ariadna S. Rubio Lebrón's picture

The Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) student chapter of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Mayagüez Campus (RUM) won second place in the 2023 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Forum of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). 

This is the fifth time the students have participated in the competition, in which they achieved three consecutive championships from 2018 to 2021. This year, they presented the PROMISE: Permanent Research Outpost for Mars and Interplanetary Space Exploration mission, which met the challenge imposed in this edition to send four astronauts to Mars and have them survive there for seven years.  

Applications Open! NASA Dragonfly Student and Early Career Investigator Program

Ariadna S. Rubio Lebrón's picture

Saturn’s moon Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a dense atmosphere, which supports an Earth-like hydrological cycle of methane clouds, rain, lakes and seas. Complex organic surface materials preserve, in a deep freeze, the types of organic chemicals that were present on Earth before life developed. Titan's icy crust floats atop an interior liquid water ocean. Dragonfly is a rotorcraft lander (an octocopter) that will explore a variety of locations on Titan.

Rating: 

0

Forums: 

Tags: 

Graduate of the Department of Physics and Electronics of the UPRH hired by NASA 

Alondra Caraballo Franco's picture

PRESS RELEASE 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

March 15, 2022 

Graduate of the Department of Physics and Electronics of the UPRH hired by NASA 

(Humacao, P.R.) - Ms. Shamir Maldonado Rivera, a graduate of the Department of Physics and Electronics of the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao (UPRH) was hired by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to work in the area of electronic engineering, focused on research and development of aerospace technology.  

Working on a NASA-related project? Submit an abstract for the International Astronautical Congress

Giovanna Guerrero-Medina's picture

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 5, 2020

Call for Abstracts: 71st International Astronautical Congress in Dubai, UAE

Audience: Full-time U.S. Graduate Students Attending U.S. Universities

Rating: 

0

Forums: 

Tags: 

SEDS UPRM Observation & Planetarium Night

Angelic Marie Arzola Roig's picture

     Early sky watchers used to enjoy and monitor our sky for celestial objects and phenomena, even with their lack of sophisticated instruments. Somehow, they managed to understand and develop the ideas that would set the basis for modern astronomy. Nowadays, when the concepts “space,” “astronauts,” or even “NASA” are used the first thoughts coming to mind may be those related to science, engineering, or technology. Yet, the truth is that the study of space is much more than just traditional subjects like Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM); it entails achieving new and innovative ways of thinking about our universe, thus leading to a new and an avant-garde way of perceiving all of our surroundings.

The UPR Aguadilla looks for professionals to study aeronautics

This article is reproduced by CienciaPR with permission from the original source.

CienciaPR Contribution: 

No

By: 

MICHELLE ESTADES

The University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla looks for professionals to study aeronautics.

El profesor Edgardo Desardén imparte el curso de electrónica y electricidad básica. (Ricardo Alcaraz)

 

Tags: 

Polytechnic University Inaugurates New Aerospace Lab With First Full Motion Flight Simulator In Puerto Rico

This article is reproduced by CienciaPR with permission from the original source.

CienciaPR Contribution: 

No

By: 

Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 7, 2013 – The Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR) School of Engineering and Geomatic Sciences inaugurated today its new Aerospace Laboratory located at its Hato Rey campus. This new lab includes a wind tunnel, a helicopter turbine, a nozzle station, a vibration-measuring station, as well as the first MOTUS 622i Flight Simulator in Puerto Rico, the only one in its class with full motion capability, valued in over $250,000.

Tags: 

From Las Piedras to NASA

Jacqueline Flores Otero's picture
Dr. Félix Miranda
Dr. Félix Miranda

When the different NASA spacecraft such as Voyager, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), and MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging), among others, currently exploring the universe send messages to Earth, they do so through the transmission of microwaves, a type of electromagnetic wave, shorter in wavelength than that of radio, that can travel far distances and penetrate through the atmosphere. While longer microwaves are used to cook our food, shorter microwaves are used for satellite communication to Earth, for radar systems such as the Doppler weather radar, for GPS navigation, and even for wireless internet signals.

Subscribe to Aerospace Aeronautical or Astronautical Engineering