Members of Missouri University of Science and Technology’s Rocket Design Team made university history with the successful launch of their liquid-fueled rocket, Phoenix, this June. According to the team, they are the fifteenth team in the United States and the twentieth worldwide to launch a student-built liquid-fueled rocket. Phoenix flew to a height of 21,437…
Supported by the NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium, researchers and students at the University of Missouri–St. Louis are exploring how comets may hold the molecular clues to Earth’s water—and life itself. Their work combines hands-on student training, national partnerships, and access to premier space-based observatories like the James Webb Space Telescope. How did we come…
A Missouri S&T student-designed satellite is now in space and revolving around the Earth — thanks to some help from a SpaceX rocket. On Monday, March 4, several members of the Missouri S&T Satellite Research Team were in California and watched in person as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, which was carrying the team’s small, cube-shaped satellite, lifted…