Space & Environment

Plastrics May One Day Be Manufactured From fish Waste

The plastic material is of precious help. Some might also say it is an inevitability. However, it causes a tremendous harmful influence on our environment.Well, consider the Great Pacific rubbish patch, an oceanic accumulation of trash so enormous that it is generally referred to as a trash island. The area is twice the size...

From Class Assignment To Published Aerospace Engineering Research

Griffith-type transonic airfoil inside an wind tunnel test section. Credit: University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignArmando Collazo Garcia III received more than he anticipated from a graduate course he took last spring. He gained a new understanding of the physics of transonic shocks generated throughout a laminar flow airfoil with boundary-layer suction and included a published...

COVID-19 Provokes Liquid Oxygen Shortages Delaying Space X Launch Plans

On the left (SpaceX falcon 9 ). On the right (liquid oxygen). Credit: Derya OzdemirAs the COVID-19 cases increase across the globe as a result of the Delta variant, liquid oxygen (LOX), which hospitals employ to treat patients, remains in short supply. LOX is getting hard to find as demand increases, and COVID-19 patients...