The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a two-year, $241,960 Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800).
The grant will support research into Magnetized High-Frequency Excited Plasmas for Rarefied Air Ionization in Air-Breathing Electric Propulsion. The University of Texas at Austin, as a sub-awardee of the University of Texas System, will conduct research to develop technologies for ionizing rarefied air to support air-breathing electric propulsion. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority through basic and applied scientific research relevant to its needs. This award will contribute to those efforts by advancing capabilities for ionizing air at low densities to enable new electric propulsion technologies for aircraft.
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