The University of Florida has helped to forge a deal between the Kingdom of Spain and the state of Florida initiating the groundwork for collaborative research that could boost the state's aerospace industry. (Read more)

In an unprecedented achievement, three student teams from Embry-Riddle's Daytona Beach campus recently took first, second, and third place in the Runway Safety/Runway Incursions Challenge category of the 2010-2011 Design Competition for Universities sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration. (Read more)

Aided by a $900,000 grant from NASA, Advanced Magnet Lab's scientists will develop a computer model to tell the agency how to build an electric jet. (Read more)

Thai satellite company Thaicom Plc. has chosen Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) to launch the new Thaicom 6 telecommunications satellite from its Cape Canaveral launch site in the second quarter of 2013. (Read more)

A research center at Daytona Beach International Airport offered the first demonstration of a $50 million project that's being called the future of air-traffic-control technology. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach is running one of the nation's only three locations to test "NextGen," the Federal Aviation Administration program to upgrade air-traffic control from radar to satellite-based technology. (Read more)

An unmanned, privately built rocket lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday on a successful test flight before it begins cargo runs to the International Space Station for NASA. (Read more)