The final -- and most dramatic -- stage of the LightSail-A mission was pulled off this week when the 11-pound spacecraft deployed its 344-square-foot solar sail in low-Earth orbit, returning a mesmerizing image to its cheering sections at Georgia Tech.

On Sunday, July 5, when the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team bested Japan (5-2) to take home the World Cup, Vickie Brian, GT-AE's assistant director for operations, was right at home.

A team of eight graduate and undergraduate researchers from GT-AE’s Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL) has taken home a top honor in the NASA-NIA Revolutionary Aerospace Concepts Academic Linkage (“RASC-AL”) competition.

Seven students enrolled in the School of Aerospace Engineering have been tapped to receive the Presidents Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) this fall, enabling them to continue special projects they have already launched with faculty advisors.

Papers authored by Georgia Tech School of Aerospace Engineering students, faculty, and alumni were awarded top honors by the American Helicopter Society at its 71st Forum, held in Virginia Beach this May.

Brandon Ringfield, a Lithia Springs High School student, is one of several students who will return to GT-AE this summer for the Science Technology and Engineering Pipeline (STEP) camp, sponsored by GT-AE and the Georgia Space Grant Consortium.

Associate Professor Brian German has been selected to attend the 2015 Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium, to be held Sept. 9-11 in Irvine, CA.

The scholarship of GT-AE graduate student Jonathan Walker was featured during the 62nd Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force (JANNAF) conference, held June 1-5 in Nashville, TN.

Two GT-AE faculty, Wenting Sun and Timothy Lieuwen, have been selected by the U.S. DOE to receive more than $2 million in combined research and development grants to facilitate the development & demonstration of next-generation gas turbine technology.

For the second time in three years, GT-AE doctoral student Francesca M. Favaro has been selected to receive the Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship.