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While engineering a camera to capture a spacewalk, notoriously one of the most dangerous feats carried out by astronauts, a team of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students focused on a single button.

Using weather balloons, undergraduate students at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott, Arizona, campus will capture real-time data during a partial solar eclipse.

Backed by an NSF CAREER grant of $676,000, Dr. Jeremy Riousset, assistant professor in Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Physical Sciences Department, studies atmospheric electricity on Mars, which has implications for the safety of missions to the planet and even on the search for extraterrestrial life.

As a young girl, Dr. Pragati Pradhan used to point out different planets and constellations in the night sky to her mother from their terrace in Darjeeling, India, high up in the Himalayas.

A group of students from across Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s three campuses was recently chosen as one of only 15 teams from around the world to present space innovations at NASA’s annual Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition.

NASA’s Artemis program, which will send humans to the moon for the first time since the Apollo days, will land the first woman and the first person of color onto the lunar surface, equipping them with innovative technologies to explore and discover more than any astronaut has before. But NASA won’t do it alone.

Six Embry‑Riddle students have been selected this year to receive Gilman Scholarships, which will fund opportunities for them to study internationally.

Community leaders and elected officials on July 11 joined Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Dr. Anette Karlsson, chancellor of the Prescott, Arizona campus, in breaking ground for an advanced learning complex designed to prepare future innovation leaders.

Embry‑Riddle researchers, led by Katariina Nykyri, have been awarded a total of $1.48 million in grants from NASA ($992,000) and the National Science Foundation (NSF: $485,000) to study space phenomena that can harm technological systems and even threaten human health.

For recent Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University graduate Hannah Hodge, scholarship funding is a game-changer.

Researchers at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University recently received $450,000 to participate in an Air Force Small Business Innovation Research project with ControlX Engineering. The goal: Optimize and test a space vehicle with a robotic arm capable of performing in-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing (ISAM) on spacecraft.

Researchers in Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Space and Atmospheric Instrumentation Lab (SAIL) have been selected to receive a combined $2.25 million across two NASA grants.