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Up in the Air—Without Leaving the Ground

Engineering’s New Immersive Flight Simulator Will Test the Rigors of Flight for Safer Skies

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Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft VSS Unity

Alum at Frontier of Commercial Space Tourism

Aerospace Engineer Joins Virgin Galactic’s Final Test Before Service Begins

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Gambit drone

‘Gambit’ Pays Off in UMD Team’s Search-and-Rescue Competition Win

Drone Negotiated Indoor Chaos of a Simulated Quake to Bring Aid—and Bring Home $150K Prize

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portraits of Rama Chellappa, Ji-Cheng “JC” Zhao and Inderjit Chopra

Three Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Innovators in New Materials, Rotorcraft Design, AI Honored; Former Vice President for Research Also Recognized

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final images from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as it smashes into the asteroid Dimorphos

UMD Researchers Help Launch a Planetary Defense

Astronomers, Engineers Were Key to NASA DART Mission That ‘Smacked’ Asteroid

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Blizten helicopter

Aerospace Engineering Teams Soar Again With Helicopter Designs at International Competition

Undergrads Win, Graduate Students Place Second for Plans That Accommodate Passengers With Disabilities

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composite image of the asteroid bennu from NASA spacecraft osiris-rex

How Deep-Space Destruction Led to a ‘Rubble Pile’

UMD Researcher’s Modeling of Bennu’s Formation Helps Explain Asteroid Interiors

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student works with robotic fish in tank Maryland robotics center

Microsoft, UMD Team Up for Diversity in Robotics

Partnership Includes Graduate Fellowships, Undergraduate Instruction

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Student tests robot in the pool

Underwater Robot Competition Makes a Splash

UMD Hosts, Competes in 25th International RoboSub Event

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Sea ice

Extreme Drone Ops Could Improve Ice Measurements

Unmanned Aircraft Experts Assist in NOAA Testing to Support Better Climate, Weather Monitoring

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GIF of red and blue self-riding bike

A Self-Riding Bike? A Student Team Designed One for a Good Reason

Tech Advance Could Charge Up Bikeshare Programs

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The Da Vinci Drone

UMD Students Help Renaissance Master’s 500 Year-old Design Take Flight

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