Purdue University plays a significant role in the space industry through its extensive research, educational programs, and partnerships. As a leading academic institution, it focuses on space-related research, including lunar and small-body resource utilization, and the development of advanced propulsion technologies. Purdue collaborates with organizations like NASA and the U.S. Space Force and is actively involved in shaping space policy and fostering innovation in space exploration and commercialization.
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Rhea Space Activity and Purdue University researchers identified a resonant retrograde orbit where satellites could be deployed to track objects in both cislunar space and the geostationary belt.
Purdue University researchers during Phase 1 mapped a multi-loop trajectory that becomes a retrograde orbit and determined it to be an optimal orbit for deploying a constellation of surveillance satellites to monitor cislunar space and the geostationary belt.
The University of Illinois is working with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and multiple universities on the VISORS program, including the Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Washington State University, the Ohio State University, Purdue University, the University of California San Diego, New Mexico State University, Montana State University, and the University of Colorado.
Technical DREAM payload organizations include Fossa Systems, Hawaii Science and Technology Museum, Purdue University, and the United States Marine Corps Warfighting Lab.
The 2019-10-26 SARGE flight carried research payloads from organizations including the Mayo Clinic and Purdue University.
NASA awarded Purdue University funding in 2018 to fly the FEMTA miniature water-fueled thruster on Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket in 2021.
Dr. Steven Collicott's payload from Purdue University focuses on Zero-Gravity Green Propellant Management Technology to better understand rocket fuel behavior in microgravity.
The Evolved Medical Microgravity Suction Device payload on New Shepard Mission 7 was developed by Orbital Medicine with Purdue University and funded by NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program.