Icon (Close Menu)

Logout

NASA

Education / Government & Politics

NASA Awards University of Arkansas $750K for Satellite Communications Project

If successful, the technology could significantly speed up satellite-to-satellite and deep space communications. read more >
Education / Government & Politics / Technology

Space Grant Consortium Keeping Arkansas on NASA’s Radar

Constance Meadors, the not-so-new director of the Arkansas Space Grant Consortium, is putting Arkansas on the star chart — and keeping it on NASA’s radar. read more >
The Volocopter VoloCity urban air taxi, an electric aircraft featured at the UP.Summit in Bentonville in June 2022
Education / Energy / Government & Politics

Arkansas Space Grant Consortium Awarded $100K for NASA Research

The grant will fund a project aimed at helping to detect reliability concerns of electric aircraft and advanced air mobility vehicles. read more >
Energy / Industry / Manufacturing

Canoo Drops Arkansas From Operations List

A research and development hub in Fayetteville never got past planning and the company “never pulled the trigger” on its plans to move to Bentonville, a company official said. read more >
Education / Government & Politics / Technology

Constance Meadors Named Director of Arkansas Space Grant Consortium

Meadors is the first African American and first woman space grant director for the state of Arkansas. read more >
Banking & Finance / Industry / Restaurants & Food

Eclipse Economics: Arkansas Expects Tourism Boom on the HorizonLock Icon

To calculate how many eclipse chasers will be looking skyward in Arkansas at 1:45 p.m. on Monday, April 8, economists and tourism officials started by looking backward. read more >
Ashley Nemec-Bakk
Health Care / Insurance / Nonprofits

UAMS Fellow Chosen for Fellowship Backed by NASA (Movers & Shakers)

Ashley Nemec-Bakk is one of three researchers nationwide chosen for the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine. read more >
A rendering showing a customized version of Canoo's LV model, outfitted to transport NASA astronauts and equipment to the launchpad for the Artemis program.
Government & Politics / Public Companies / Transportation

NASA Picks Canoo for Launchpad Transport Vehicles

The electric vehicle maker will shuttle astronauts to the launch site for upcoming missions. read more >
Agriculture & Poultry / Education

NASA Gives $1 Million to UA Rice Research

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has given a $1 million grant for a rice cultivation research program headed by a biological engineering professor at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. read more >
Venus is the second closest planet to the sun.
Education

UA Researchers Receive NASA Grant to Study Venus

University of Arkansas researchers have received a three-year, $417,000 NASA grant to study the interaction between the atmosphere and surface of Venus. read more >
Government & Politics / Small Business

4 NW Arkansas Companies Get $125K NASA Grants

The Startup Junkie Foundation announced Monday that NASA has awarded $125,000 grants to four northwest Arkansas companies, through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. read more >
UA electrical engineering alumnus Emmanuel Decrossas was responsible for the MarCo CubeSat, which went to Mars alongside the 2018 Insight lander.
Business Services / Construction / Education

Arkansas Electrical Engineers Ride a Power Surge

Arkansas’ college programs in electrical engineering are thriving, with enrollment up over the past 10 years in all of the state’s accredited programs. read more >
The Ozark Integrated Circuits team.
Government & Politics / Small Business

Ozark Integrated Fits In with NASA

NASA and other agencies have awarded more than $1 million in grants to Ozark Integrated Circuits of Fayetteville since 2015 for projects that are underway, including the development of heat-resistant circuits and a camera that can record but not be damaged by ultraviolet light. read more >
Business Services / Small Business

ASBTDC To Host ‘Doing Business With NASA’ Event July 20

Small businesses can learn about how to become NASA suppliers, subcontractors or service providers at "Doing Business with NASA" on July 20 at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. read more >
J.D. Polk
Education / Government & Politics / Health Care

NASA’s Chief Medical Officer To Give Osteopathic Keynote June 17

The Arkansas Osteopathic Medical Association says J.D. Polk, NASA’s chief health and medical officer, will deliver a keynote address on June 17 during its four-day 32nd Annual State Convention. read more >
Silicon-carbide chips from Ozark Integrated Circuits.
Education

Fayetteville Company Gets NASA Grant to Commercialize High-Temp Circuits

NASA has awarded a $124,982 grant to Ozark Integrated Circuits Inc., a technology firm affiliated with the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. read more >
Education

UALR Consortium Gets $750K for Space Missions Research

The Arkansas Space Grant Consortium at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock received a $750,000 NASA EPSCoR grant to fund research. read more >
Silicon-carbide chips from Ozark Integrated Circuits.
Business Services / Education / Energy

Fayetteville Firm Gets NASA Grants to Make Circuits for Venus Probe

Ozark Integrated Circuits of Fayetteville has received two grants from NASA to develop heat-resistant circuits that can operate on the surface of Venus and AEDC board approval to further develop its patent-pending UV detector. read more >
Education

3 Apollo 13 Team Members to Speak at Bud Walton Arena

Two Apollo 13 astronauts, James Lovell and Fred Haise, and flight director Gene Krantz will speak about their infamous moon mission at 7 p.m. April 23 at Bud Walton Arena on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. read more >
Education

UALR Receives NASA Grant to Work on Moon, Mars Rovers

UALR is one of the 17 research colleges and universities across the country and the only one in Arkansas sharing more than $12 million in grants for research and technology development in areas important to NASA’s mission. read more >