UF Engineering Team Tackles Spaceflight Fuel Challenge in Zero-Gravity Experiment

A University of Florida engineering research team led by Jacob Chung, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and member of the Astraeus Space Institute, has successfully completed a zero-gravity flight experiment testing a breakthrough method to reduce fuel loss in space.

The work — funded by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program — aims to solve one of the most pressing technical challenges in deep space exploration: preventing the boil-off of cryogenic rocket fuels during long missions. Without efficient thermal management, the supercooled propellants essential to future moon and Mars missions can gradually evaporate, rendering them unusable.

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