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2023 Year in Review
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New design and analysis tools, plus collaboration on hydrogen fuel systems
![A device undergoing a test, emitting a pale pink and purple flame. The setup includes mechanical components and a metallic surface, indicating a controlled experiment or engineering process.](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Thermophysics-1200x675.jpg)
Growing demand for flight data and plasma wind tunnels in Europe, U.S. to study reentry conditions
![A small twin-propeller aircraft is stationed on the concrete floor of a hangar, with both hangar doors open allowing sunlight to enter.](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Electrified-Aircraft-Tech-1200x676.jpg)
Flight milestones and lessons learned from X-plane programs
2022 Year in Review
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Supply chain delays contribute to broader challenges
![Technicians work on the James Webb Space Telescope, which is partially assembled with its sunshield deployed, inside a Northrop Grumman facility.](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1-Spacecraft-Structures.jpg)
Webb telescope’s massive sunshield does its job in space, development begins on the next breakthrough space structures
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Computing advances allow planetary missions to leap forward
2021 Year in Review
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![Interior view of a large industrial wind tunnel with intricate machinery, acoustic tiles, and a model aircraft being tested in the center.](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Aeroacoustics-1200x675.jpg)
Addressing future noise requirements in civil aviation
![A metal vacuum chamber with bolts, attached to a long cylindrical apparatus, sits in a laboratory with various cables and equipment around.](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1-Survivability-1200x675.jpg)
Military research focuses on improving survivability in both air and space
![A person in a blue coat and cap is working on machinery with numerous pipes, wires, and metallic components in an industrial setting.](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/terrerstrial-energy-systems-1200x675.jpg)
Progress in carbon-neutral technologies for power generation
2020 Year in Review
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![Technicians in white cleanroom suits work on a piece of metallic equipment inside a laboratory, handling wires and components, while other staff observe from a glass-walled room above.](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/6-space-colonization-1200x617.jpg)
First in-situ resource utilization payload heads to Mars
![Abstract geometric wireframe depicting a partial face with an empty eye socket, composed of black intersecting lines on a white background.](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2-meshing-1200x617.jpg)
Shortened processes, software updates advance meshing, visualization
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Space systems have busy year: human spaceflight, Mars missions and on-orbit servicing
2019 Year in Review
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50 years after Apollo 11, the world took note
![Map showing the ground track of HABAL096, with lines tracing its flight path through various regions of the United States. The path appears concentrated in the central-northern area.](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Flight-296-Track-web-1200x675.jpg)
Demonstrating navigation, persistence; carrying out spacecraft tests
![A white unmanned aerial vehicle with propellers on its wings rests on a snow-covered ground in front of a large hangar under a cloudy sky, with snow being blown around.](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Beta-eVTOL-web-1200x675.jpg)
Flight testing begins for new urban air mobility, electric propulsion aircraft
2018 Year in Review
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![A green and white airplane flying in the sky.](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/transformational-flight-1-1200x675.jpg)
Dozens of urban air mobility projects underway
![Cross-sectional diagram of a detonation process showing unreacted gases, product gases, detonation front, wave direction, and oblique shock.](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AA_Dec18_Grp6_PressureGainCombust-1200x675.jpg)
Funding increase for pressure gain begins to pay off
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Shape memory materials begin to take shape
2017 Year in Review
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Improving measurement with spinning mirrors, schlieren images and magnetic suspension
![Rocket launching from a launch pad at dusk, with a bright flame and smoke trail, set against an orange sky.](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/missile-systems.jpg)
World news puts focus on missile defense
![Close-up of a spacecraft module with labeled parts: comars 1, 2, 3, and radiometer.](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/thermo.jpg)
Validating advanced thermophysics models
2016 Year in Review
All Posts![Graphic depicting technological advancements in aviation and space in 2016, featuring a spacecraft, a fighter jet, a telescope, and a rocket launching, all set against an aerial view of Earth.](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/YIR_2016-1200x675.jpg)
A new challenge set for CFD
![Utah State University tests a small hybrid rocket motor.](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/AAIA_Web_Inline_HRTC_fig1.jpg)
Several hybrid rocket technologies hit advanced test stages
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