Credit: Penn State
Michael M. Micci (left), professor of aerospace engineering, and Sven G. Bilén (right), head of the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs and professor of engineering design, aerospace engineering and electrical engineering, have been awarded more than $823,000 from AFOSR for a three-year program to develop and use a facility to study the use of beamed microwave energy to launch space vehicles off the surface of Earth.