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UT Dallas' Dr. Wei Li [Photo: UTD]
From North Texas to the Moon: NASA-Funded Engineer Tackles Lunar Welding Tech
by Lance Murray | Mar 12, 2025
With a $750,000 innovation grant from NASA, UT Dallas assistant professor Wei Li is rethinking how to weld metal in space for off-world construction—and keep astronauts safe in the process.
by David Seeley |
Dec 12, 2023
Out of 5,211 public airports in the U.S. only one—Dallas' Love Field—is getting a first-of-its-kind pop-up lounge from M&M'S with cozy seating and a holiday movie playing on an endless, comforting loop.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 19, 2022
A team led by Volkan Ötügen, director of the SMU MicroSensor Laboratory, has developed a velocity-measuring "optical microresonator" that could help spaceships land safely on Mars and other planets. It's only 2 millimeters long—about the width of two sharp pencil points.
"Every gram of a device makes a huge difference in how much fuel I will have to have on a spacecraft and how many other items I can include as payload on that spacecraft," said Ötügen, whose research is funded by NASA.
"Every gram of a device makes a huge difference in how much fuel I will have to have on a spacecraft and how many other items I can include as payload on that spacecraft," said Ötügen, whose research is funded by NASA.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Feb 27, 2018
Leonardo DRS teamed with NASA on detector technology to measure details about the winds on Mars and eventually on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
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NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama [Photo courtesy of NASA]
Jacobs Wins $1.12B Services Contract at NASA Flight Center
by Lance Murray | Sep 27, 2017
Dallas-based Jacobs will provide science, engineering, and technical support for programs including the Space Launch System, and the International Space Station.
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