U.S. News has released its 2022 Best Colleges rankings. AE at Illinois is proud to be ranked #5 for our undergraduate program and #6 for our graduate program. Visit usnews.com/.../us-news-ra… for the complete listing.

This year I have donated to 27 University-Level Student Rocket Teams. I made a list of every team I donated to and what they are doing. If you want to support space exploration, donating to these teams is the best investment you could make in our future. lars-0.github.io/StudentRocketP…

Please welcome Erika Jarosch (Erika Jarosch) 🇺🇸 to the Brooke Owens Fellows Class of 2022! Jarosch is a Senior studying Aerospace Engineering at University of Illinois and will work at Sierra Nevada Corporation this summer.

Please welcome Priyanka Sarangabany (Priyanka Sarangabany) 🇮🇳🇺🇸 to the Brooke Owens Fellows Class of 2022! Sarangabany is a Junior studying Aerospace Engineering at University of Illinois and will work at Astranis this summer.

Calling all writers and artists! The ISS SciComm Team has launched it's third annual Science Fiction Writing and Drawing Competition! The competition will close on March 5th. Here is the Linktree which has links to the prompts and submission form: linktr.ee/SciComm

We had 11 members from our Spaceshot rocketry team obtain their Technician Class HAM Radio licenses! With these qualifications, our team can improve our rocket telemetry systems. We would also like to shout-out the Twin City Amateur Radio Club for donating two handheld radios!

ISS's Mario Kart mentorship meeting last week was a hit! It was a super fun time filled with racing, hanging out, and eating some snacks! Congratulations to our winner for playing some quite impressive rounds of Mario Kart! Huge thanks to David Robbins for organizing this event!

The telemetry team had an exciting testing session/field trip across campus last week and it was a big success! The goal was to not only check hardware, but also determine maximum operating range. Huge thanks to Arrow Antennas for donating an Alaskan Antenna to ISS!

The RASC-AL has submitted its proposal for the Mars Ice Thermal Harvesting Rig and ISRU Laboratory (MITHRIL)! After two successful design reviews with faculty, student, and industry advisors, the team hopes to represent UIUC for the 9th straight year at the RASC-AL competition!

The Large Rocketry Materials team has been hard at work developing our prototype nose cone! After months of R&D, the team settled on using a 3D printed mold and wet fiberglass layups to create the conical shape. Now integration of the AV system and physical testing can proceed!

The Illinois Space Society has been selected to represent UIUC for the tenth year in a row at the RASC-AL competition! The RASC-AL team is also happy to announce a partnership with Honeybee Robotics and is super excited to work with the Honeybee team!

The RASCAL team had their final design review! They did a great job presenting to advisors, NASA connections, and Honeybee Robotics connections! This design review was a practice run for the RASCAL completion in Florida. Good luck RASCAL team! You'll do absolutely amazing!

Introducing ISD 2022: To the Moon, Mars, and Back taking place September 24th🚀 Students will see space and STEM demonstrations, participate in hands-on activities, and interact with guest speakers. Visit the ISS website and then the ISD specific page to get more information!

A rocket named Intrepid III implies it’s the third in a series of successful rockets. The truth? Intrepid III was born out of two failed launches. The “III” reflects the determination of the students who overcame two failures with a success. aerospace.illinois.edu/news/52397

This past weekend, from April 4th-5th, a select group of members of Micro-g NExT represented their team and ISS at the AIAA 2025 Region III Student Conference, held at the University of Cincinnati! 🌟 They hope to see you at their upcoming final presentation!🧑‍🚀🛠️