NASA awards UT Arlington aerospace engineers grant to study hypersonic propulsion for space access

Two University of Texas at Arlington aerospace engineering professors have been awarded a three-year, $640,000 NASA National Research Award to study novel injector designs to support combustion at hypersonic speeds, work aimed at reducing air travel times and making space access affordable. Luca Maddalena and Luca Massa, both assistant professors in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , are the only collegiate researchers in the country to garner the NASA hypersonic award. “We’re honored to be the only U.S. grant winners to study this very