“Texas can and should lead the nation” in space exploration The Space Engineering Research Center (SERC), the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) hosted the Texas Commercial Space Workshop at Rudder Tower and Memorial Student Center Oct. 2 to discuss the development of commercial space [...]
The Space Engineering Research Center (SERC) received mention in two separate presentations at the recent Next Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC) on June 3-5 at Broomfield, Colorado. Ed Wright of Citizens in Space discussed the experiment payload carrier that the SERC is developing with a student team from the TAMU Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISEN) [...]
From SpaceNews: Texas A&M To Build Payload Carrier for Lynx Spaceplane By SpaceNews Staff | Apr. 1, 2013 Texas A&M University will design and build a secondary payload carrier for XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx suborbital spaceplane, XCOR and the Texas-based nonprofit sponsoring the project announced March 28. The Lynx Cub Payload Carrier will be designed to [...]
A recent collaboration between the Space Engineering Research Center (SERC) at the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station and Dr Halil Berberoglu at the University of Texas at Austin, has led to a proposal to test an innovative bioreactor concept for space life support. Dr. Berberoglu and his students envisioned a novel system that mimics the [...]
On April 8th, a group of students from Bauman Moscow State Technical University visited Texas A&M University with their hosts from Rice University. The Space Engineering Research Center (SERC) was one of the stops for the group, who were briefed on several aerospace projects and centers across campus. The A&M visit follows 10 days of [...]
The Space Engineering Research Center (SERC) along with students from the Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) department have partnered with Citizens in Space, a project of the United States Rocket Academy, to build a payload integrator to be flown on the XCOR Lynx space plane. The Lynx Cub Payload Carrier, as it is known, will [...]
From JSC today, April 5, 2013: Texas A&M Engineering Project Showcase Please join the Texas A&M Engineering Student Services and Academic Program as we showcase the remarkable engineering projects that our students are producing. When: April 19 from noon to 4 p.m. Where: G. Rollie White Coliseum, Texas A&M University What: Over 100 projects showcasing [...]
On March 15th, the Space Engineering Research Center (SERC) delivered an innovative star field simulator to technical personnel at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama. The simulator provides a realistic simulation of what a NASA space-based telescope would see when viewing the night sky under a variety of conditions, for use by [...]
The Space Engineering Research Center (SERC) recently participated in a series of Zero Gravity (G) aircraft flights out of Ellington Field, Houston, Texas. These flights, sponsored by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), fly a parabolic flight profile to provide brief periods of weightlessness, that simulates the environment of space for both human and experimental [...]