Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) is a public, state-related, land-grant research university actively involved in the space industry through research, education, and partnerships. As a space-grant institution, Penn State supports space-related research infrastructure, student fellowships, and cooperative initiatives with NASA, industry partners, and other universities. Key areas of focus include astrobiology, aerospace engineering, propulsion, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, with the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence (PSETI) Center receiving NASA funding for technosignature research. Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory also conducts essential R&D in materials, space propulsion, and combustion power.
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NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Pennsylvania State University’s Eberly College of Science in University Park made operational changes to keep Swift at least 185 miles above Earth.
Pennsylvania State University is leading the BlackCAT mission that places an x-ray observatory on a CubeSat platform to capture transient x-ray events and study bursts from the collapse of early stars into black holes.
Penn State and Georgia Tech are developing a novel air-breathing microwave plasma thruster for VLEO spacecraft.
Penn State led the design and construction of the Habitable-Zone Planet Finder instrument, which is dedicated to detecting Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of nearby stars.
The research team included scientists from UCLA, Pennsylvania State University, the University of the Netherlands, and the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Co-authors of this research included Zhidan Zhang, a retired lab technologist from Penn State, and NASA Goddard researchers Hannah McLain, Kendra Farnsworth, Daniel Glavin, Jamie Elsila, and Jason Dworkin.
The researchers transferred the samples to a gamma radiation chamber at Penn State's Radiation Science and Engineering Center, cooled to minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center manages the Swift mission in collaboration with Penn State and Northrop Grumman Space Systems.
The Lt. Michael P. Murphy Award is endowed through funding from Maxar and Penn State’s community with the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation serving as the awarding organization.
The new KYOCERA AVX Components Corporation (Erie) facility will support continued collaboration with Penn State Behrend to advance product and technology solutions and develop a high-tech engineering workforce.
XCAM Ltd. delivered an advanced digital Electron Multiplying CCD camera system to Pennsylvania State University for the OGRE mission.
XCAM worked with Pennsylvania State University through multiple changes in the camera design during the build and delivered the camera system on time.
The OGRE soft X-ray spectrometer includes Off-Plane Reflection Gratings using X-ray Diffraction being developed at Pennsylvania State University.
Jeremy Turpin earned his PhD at the Pennsylvania State University, focusing on leading-edge technologies including electromagnetics and transformational optics.