Kareem Ahmed of UCF has received $7.5 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to advance detonation-based propulsion for hypersonic and space rockets. The project will use jet and rocket propellant fuels for ultimate hypersonic and rocket performance.
"This will lead to ultra-fast intercontinental travel, such as from New York to London in less than 5 minutes, and for commercial space activities and interplanetary travel that use a higher power and more efficient rocket propulsion technology in a smaller form, thus making space travel more economical," Ahmed says. This story also discusses work by Tania Roy on ionizing radiation in gallium nitride semiconductors and Kevin Coffey on advanced measuring techniques for microelectronics.
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