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Embry-Riddle researchers are testing next-generation spacesuits, calculating the cost of rocket launches to airlines, unraveling complex atmospheric events that affect satellites, and pioneering new technology to keep astronauts safe in space. From designing autonomous `asteroid-hopping’ spacecraft to exploring the legal implications of space business, Embry-Riddle is supporting a new era of exploration.
Embry-Riddle Alumna Helps Unravel Key Mysteries of Rare Stars
Within the constellation Cygnus, an elderly star and its massive companion are having one last hurrah, flinging off mass at an incredible rate before they explode as supernovae and…
Eagle Rebuilds Her Life, Looks to the ‘Beauty’ of Numbers
Space Physics senior Sydni Bond never set out to be a role model. After all, she had struggles of her own to deal with. She’s been homeless more than once, lived in poverty, survived…
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NASA’s `30 Celestial Gems’ Include Two Images by Embry-Riddle Astronomer
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA released 30 galleries of dazzling celestial images – including two captured by Embry-Riddle Physics and Astronomy…
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Naval ROTC Inventor Takes on Elite Air Force Space Challenge
A startup company launched by a Naval ROTC faculty member on Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach Campus was the only Florida business to participate in the recent…
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Eagle Alumna Wins NASA Trailblazer Award for Work on Manned Rocket Mission
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University alumna Nathalie Quintero ('15) was one of two early-career systems engineers at The Boeing Company to earn NASA’s Space Flight Awareness Trailblazer…
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Six Eagles Represent First Embry-Riddle Cohort to Commission into U.S. Space Force
Five seniors on Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott Campus, and one student from the Daytona Beach Campus, are taking part in a momentous development in history. As…
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Eagles Research How Emerging Space Industry Will Impact National Airspace
As the space industry develops, two Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students have had the opportunity to take part in real-world research exploring how the emergence of commercial…
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Eagles Partner Across the Globe to Plan Mission to Asteroid Belt
As part of a NASA design competition, students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University completed in March a nine-month campaign to design a conceptual mission to Mars, including building…
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Eagles to Land First Student Project on Moon to Snap Selfie of Lunar Landing
Embry-Riddle is partnering with NASA commercial payload provider Intuitive Machines to send a camera to space that will capture the first-ever selfie of a spacecraft touching down on…
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Understanding Auroras: Faculty Research Opens New Doors for Students
A key discovery about the complex interactions that drive brilliant auroras will mean new hands-on research opportunities for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students in Prof.…
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Business Students Partner with Space Florida to Boost Spaceport Revenues
Graduate students in Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s David B. O’Maley College of Business are taking a hands-on role in the exciting but complicated process of transforming…
Space Workers: ‘Run Toward Difficult Problems’
For husband-and-wife duo Kathy and Dillon Rice, the latest guests to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Aviation Outlook webinar series, success is not a state of being. It’s…
Students Engineer Their Way to NASA Design Development
When Lea Miller was a little girl growing up in Pearl River, New York, she used to watch Star Trek, dreaming that she would one day be able to explore other worlds like they did on…
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Undergraduate Research Earns Funding for Astronaut Safety Equipment, Innovative Sports Injury Prevention, More
Research by Embry-Riddle senior Haleema Irfan will help create a sensor for detection of a serious problem encountered by astronauts on long-term spaceflights: hydrocephalus, or an…
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Scientific 'Red Flag' Reveals New Clues about Our Galaxy, Embry-Riddle Researcher Says
Figuring out how much energy permeates the center of the Milky Way — a discovery reported in the July 3 edition of the journal Science Advances — could yield new clues to…