The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a public research university with strong ties to the space industry. Founded in 1963 to support the U.S. space program, UCF drives advancements in space technology, medicine, and workforce development. UCF oversees the Florida Space Institute and manages the NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium and has over 40 active NASA projects. The university is a trusted partner with NASA and its mission to explore beyond Earth.
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GoKnown was accepted into the University of Central Florida’s NSF I-Corps Aerospace and Aviation Cohort funded by the National Science Foundation in August.
The photonic lantern was designed and fabricated by the University of Sydney and the University of Central Florida.
Astrobotic completed a flight test campaign for the University of Central Florida (UCF) last week at the company’s facility in Mojave, CA.
Astrobotic completed a flight test campaign for the University of Central Florida at its Mojave, California facility on 2023-10-10.
Astrobotic is collaborating with Phil Metzger of the University of Central Florida to design and build the Floatinator hot-fire test apparatus.
Astrobotic is collaborating with Phil Metzger of the University of Central Florida to design and build a hot-fire test apparatus for the Floatinator project.
The University of Central Florida, Orlando, won third place in the AIAA Rookie Award at the college level in NASA’s 2023 Student Launch challenge.
MSBAI, Georgia Tech, and the University of Central Florida were awarded a SpaceWERX Orbital Prime Small Business Technology Transfer Phase 1 contract to adapt the GURU 'Universal Interface for Simulation' for In-space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing missions.
MSBAI, Georgia Tech, and the University of Central Florida have been awarded a SpaceWERX Orbital Prime Small Business Technology Transfer Phase 1 contract to adapt the GURU ‘Universal Interface for Simulation’ for In-space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing missions.
Students at the University of Central Florida provided an experimental payload designed to simulate asteroid particle activity during the suborbital flight.
The National Science Foundation selected a group led by the University of Central Florida, with Universidad Ana G. Méndez and Yang Enterprises Inc., to run the Arecibo telescope in 2018.
Three payloads that flew on Virgin Galactic’s 2018-12-13 SpaceShipTwo flight—a vibration isolation platform from Controlled Dynamics Inc., a dust-particle behavior experiment from the University of Central Florida, and a biological fluorescent imaging instrument from the University of Florida—are also flying on Blue Origin’s NS-10 mission.
The Collisions Into Dust Experiment (COLLIDE) led by Dr. Josh Colwell and Dr. Addie Dove at the University of Central Florida investigates dust particle reactions during planetary exploration missions.