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We’re Littering The Earth With Space Trash

Space debris is not just polluting our atmosphere, it has impact on Earth as well, says aerospace engineer Moriba Jah in this Defector piece

Clint Dawson Receives SEC Faculty Achievement Award

Clint Dawson is a recipient of the 2025 Southeastern Conference Achievement Award.

WilCo appoints 4 members to spaceport board as Burnet County defers bylaw approval

Lori Magruder is one of four board members appointed to serve on the future Central Texas Spaceport Development Corporation.

UMN Morris Welcomes Distinguished Visiting Professor Moriba Jah

Moriba Jah was named a distinguished visiting professor of the University of Minnesota Morris, where he delivered a keynote lecture and participated in other campus events including classroom visits and discussions. 

Data-driven Surrogate Model Improves Storm Surge Prediction | SIAM News

 Jinpai (Max) Zhao, a Ph.D. student advised by Clint Dawson, was featured in this SIAM News story on his modeling framework to generalize global storm surge and accurately predict water elevation that he presented at the 2025 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering.

Why We Need to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle in Space | Scientific American

Moriba Jah discusses the urgency of cleaning up Earth's orbital debris and moving toward a circular space economy before it becomes a crisis.

GPS Spoofing Attacks Are Dangerously Misleading Airliners | IEEE Spectrum

Todd Humphreys discusses how GPS spoofing works and strategies his team is developing to protect aircraft.

LIFT + UT Austin / Texas Aerial Robotics GoAERO Stage 1 Winner

The Texas Aerial Robotics (TAR) student organization has collaborated with Maruthi Akella's Controls Group for Distributed and Uncertain Systems lab and LIFT Aircraft to compete in the GoAERO competition where they were selected as a Stage 1 Winner.

Apptronik Raises $350 Million in Series A Funding

Apptronik, a spin-off company that started in Luis Sentis' Human Centered Robotics Laboratory, has raised $350 million to scale the production of AI-powered humanoid robots.

Why an Austin-area company’s lunar lander is key to NASA’s moon missions | KVUE News

KVUE News features professor Maruthi Akella and UT Aerospace alumna Annie Vo Cohen of Firefly Aerospace in this story about the reasons for returning to the Moon and the future of the booming Texas space economy.

Does Space Need Environmentalists? | Noema Magazine

In this piece on space environmentalism, Moriba Jah discusses the growing issue of orbital space debris and the need for a circular space economy.

UT professor fellow wins Whitten Medal, broaching new frontiers with geodesy research | The Daily Texan

Srinivas Bettadpur's work recognized by the American Geophysical Union with the Charles A. Whitten Medal is featured in this Daily Texan story.

Electronic Warfare Spooks Airlines, Pilots and Air-Safety Officials | WSJ

Todd Humphreys says the aviation industry and regulators need to act quickly to protect aircraft against spoofing of commercial aircraft. 

Israel GPS 'spoofing' against missiles disrupts civilian life, aviation in Lebanon and Middle East | Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Todd Humphreys discusses civilian and aviation GPS spoofing against missiles in Lebanon and the Middle East.

Where Did Life Come From, Exactly? The Answer Is Out There | Inverse

This Inverse piece discusses a paper co-authored by Thomas Underwood and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that explores how plasmas could have contributed to the chemical origin of life on early Earth.

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