Behind UCF Space Game 2025’s Theme: Hypersonic HADES Wind Tunnel This year’s annual event takes inspiration from the UCF HyperSpace Center’s large-scale hypersonic wind tunnel, which launches later this month to advance hypersonic travel and space propulsion research worldwide.
UCF Launches 1st Planetary and Space Sciences Ph.D. Program in Florida The interdisciplinary program will prepare STEM students for in-demand scientific careers in data, physical, geological, and atmospheric fields across government agencies, the private sector, and academic and research institutions.
The Science Behind Star Formation: UCF Professor Studying D2H+ Ions in Extreme Conditions Physics Professor Viatcheslav Kokoouline is investigating the dissociative recombination of D2H+ ions to understand how stars form, the origins of water and life in the universe, and potential technological applications.
UCF Physics Professor Works to Uncover the Universe’s History, One Rock at a Time From microscopic dust collected by spacecrafts to meteorites that land on Earth, UCF Associate Professor of Physics Ryan Ogliore is studying rocks from space to uncover the history of our solar system and the universe beyond.
BNY and UCF Announce $5M Pegasus Partnership and Co-Location, Forging a New Model for Industry-Academia Collaboration The milestone partnership will give UCF students real-world experience with one of the world’s most respected financial institutions, while leveraging the university’s faculty excellence, research power, and startup-like agility to anticipate market and technology disruptions.
This UCF Engineering Alum’s Name Is Written in Outer Space Cassie Todd ’14 has her signature all over some of the most advanced satellite technology that’s making a positive impact on our world from far, far away.
UCF First-Generation Student Is Finding Her Place in Space Charting her own course through aerospace engineering and physics, first-generation student Kaaliyah McGaughy is proving that curiosity and determination can launch anyone toward their dreams.
Why Do We Celebrate UCF Space Week? Because Discovery Starts Here Space has always inspired what Knights do. The same unstoppable spirit that launched UCF still drives us — to challenge, lead and dare to explore the unknown.
