A University of Queensland graduate has reversed the brain drain by returning from NASA to work on air-breathing engines known as scramjets in Brisbane, Australia.
15 February 2006The University of Queensland’s fascination with rocket science continues with students testing and launching three different types of supersonic propulsion systems in the last month.
19 November 2004The University of Queensland’s world-leading research into hypersonics will be given a boost with the announcement of $2.2 million in funding from the State Government.
9 June 2004The University of Queensland’s internationally celebrated HyShot™ program has been given its own rocket boost through an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant of almost $2 million announced this week.
16 October 2003The University of Queensland topped the nation’s universities in funding from the first round of Australian Research Council’s Linkage Projects announced today.
15 October 2003The world’s first mammalian births in space are expected to occur during a $US15 million project to blast-off in 2005 and involving Australian and US universities.
24 September 2002Australia is in a strong position to participate as suppliers, rather than as purchasers of services, in advanced space technology, according to a leading UQ space researcher.
24 September 2002University of Queensland researchers today (August 16) claimed success for the world`s first flight test of supersonic combustion, the process used in an air-breathing supersonic ramjet engine, known as a scramjet.
16 August 2002Ramjets predated World War II, with beginnings in 1913, when Rene Lorin of France recognised the possibility of using ram pressure in a propulsive device.
27 July 2002University of Queensland researchers have found a way to make the business of flight more efficient by significantly reducing drag, work which has implications for vehicles from aeroplanes to space craft.
26 March 2001A University of Queensland Arts/Engineering graduate who has undertaken work on a new ground based test facility for spacecraft has received the inaugural national award for the best undergraduate thesis in space engineering.
19 March 2001The University of Queensland has consolidated its position as one of the nation's leading research universities by attracting the third highest number and amount of new grant allocations nationally for 2001 from the National Health and Medical...
21 November 2000Leaders in international space technology development will attend the 10th annual Australian Space Research Institute (ASRI) conference at The University of Queensland from December 1 to 3.
16 November 2000Queensland biotechnology research has been given a major boost with today's announcement of substantial funding for a world class structural biology facility.
31 October 2000Thousands of University of Queensland staff and students lined the streets in and around the St Lucia campus on June 14 to cheer on runners in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Torch Relay.
15 June 2000University of Queensland researchers have won the highest number and value of the Australian Research Council's Research Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities (RIEF) grants for 2000.
27 October 1999The University of Queensland has scooped the lion's share of awards in a new Australian Research Council scheme to promote international collaboration.
14 July 1998Julie Webb has not let blindness prevent her from becoming one of the top achieving medallists of the 63 students awarded University of Queensland medals for outstanding scholarship at graduation ceremonies at Mayne Hall, St Lucia on May 18 and May...
15 May 1998The University of Queensland will play an important role in an unmanned Japanese flight to an asteroid in 2002 to retrieve the first extra-terrestrial matter since the end of the Apollo program.
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