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17 September 2025

Imperial Aeronautics staff honoured with NASA award for Mars helicopter research

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05 August 2025

Aeronautics postgraduate students develop new composite Padel racket design

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08 May 2025

Earth-cooling research to be piloted by Imperial aerospace engineers

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26 March 2025

Imperial College Aeronautics PhD student wins prestigious Amazon Robotics Prize

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16 September 2024

Imperial student rocketry team win international challenge

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15 August 2024

Imperial students awarded prestigious Amelia Earhart Fellowships

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01 August 2024

Imperial hosts showcase exploring impact of structural power composite research

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24 June 2024

Transforming Aeronautics with advanced computational tools

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21 June 2024

AVATAR project wins awards for sustainability and strategic excellence

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23 April 2024

Imperial students’ innovative lunar landing pad wins Airbus competition

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22 April 2024

Imperial researcher wins national presentation prize for turbulence research

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15 March 2024

Imperial Space Society’s solar sail bound for high-altitude balloon mission

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01 March 2024

Imperial academics provide expertise on emerging materials science in space

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05 February 2024

New robotics and acoustic monitoring for freshwater ecosystem research

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08 December 2023

Imperial launches new MSc in Cleantech Innovation

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28 November 2023

World’s first transatlantic flight on 100% sustainable aviation fuel takes off

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23 November 2023

Imperial researchers win European grants worth €4million euros

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17 October 2023

Supersonic wind tunnel facility launched at Imperial

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29 September 2023

£1million project to develop sustainable packaging solutions

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19 September 2023

Imperial hosts workshop to highlight EU research

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06 September 2023

Aeronautics celebrates academic staff promotions

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25 July 2023

In memoriam: Professor Lorenzo Iannucci

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19 July 2023

Aeronautics student awarded prestigious VFF scholarship and NASA award

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05 July 2023

£1.4m grant for AI to help achieve net zero in energy and transport

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26 June 2023

Heat-resistant drone could scope out and map burning buildings and wildfires

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21 June 2023

£23m grant award for Imperial-led National Wind Tunnel Facility

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25 May 2023

Breakthrough morphing wings to advance aerodynamic flight

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21 May 2023

Aeronautics student wins competition with novel blade design

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10 May 2023

Imperial researchers collaborate to achieve water-fuelled satellite engine

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28 April 2023

Aeronautics student wins Airbus competition with novel space manufacturing plant

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18 April 2023

Aeronautics inspires next generation of engineers

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13 January 2023

Imperial academics scoop over £1M Royce grant for pioneering energy research

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16 December 2022

High-flying Aeronautics student awarded gliding scholarship

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28 November 2022

Imperial aerodynamics expert briefs MPs on future vehicle design

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10 November 2022

Aeronautics students win Student Aerospace Challenge

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09 November 2022

AI design startup attracts £5 million in venture funding

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04 November 2022

Celebrating Aeronautics first female professor

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26 October 2022

Professor Koon-Yang Lee receives prestigious Young Investigator Award

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21 October 2022

Investigating wind forces on high-rise buildings

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18 October 2022

Aeronautics celebrates academic staff promotions

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26 July 2022

Professor Silvestre Pinho speaks in Parliament on Net Zero in aviation

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21 July 2022

Aeronautics hosts showcase event to highlight research expertise

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19 July 2022

Imperial students celebrate first test launch in space rocket programme

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13 July 2022

Imperial students set to send reusable rocket into space

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14 June 2022

Shape-shifting drone flies and dives to seek aquatic environmental clues

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30 May 2022

Imperial’s push toward sustainable aviation boosted by £25 million donation

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20 May 2022

Understanding turbulent flows in urban design could aid wind farm efficiency

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19 May 2022

Fish-inspired drone hitchhikes, flies and swims using unique sticky design

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18 May 2022

Novel origami heat shield holds potential for human voyage to Mars

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29 March 2022

Aeronautics undergraduate student wins Airbus Space competition

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23 March 2022

Sustainable Future: Earth and Space

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21 March 2022

Unique ‘virtual wind tunnel’ could help optimise Mars-bound helicopter blades

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24 February 2022

Imperial academics awarded funding for space sustainability research

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24 January 2022

Aeronautics PhD student takes parabolic flight to test new control technology

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08 November 2021

Celebrating Aeronautics latest academic staff promotions

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23 June 2021

Aeronautics Alumnus recognised for battling COVID-19 on wards

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29 March 2021

COVID-19 research: sneeze guards may make flights safer

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22 March 2021

Aeronautics researchers to develop longer-lasting artificial joints

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14 March 2021

Aero students achieve second place in International Space Challenge

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10 March 2021

Aeronautics PhD Prize winner announced

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