University of Wisconsin–Madison

Aerospace Engineering Projects

Spring 2026 AE design projects

  • MIRAJ

    MIRAJ

    The M.I.R.A.J. is a conceptual nuclear-electric deep-space transport platform to enable rapid, flexible, and repeatable missions across the outer solar system.

  • Asteroid Truck

    Asteroid Truck

    The Asteroid Truck mission presents an autonomous spacecraft designed to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid and relocate it into a stable lunar orbit for future resource utilization.

  • Eco-Plane

    Eco-Plane

    The Eco-Plane is a conceptual 50-passenger regional aircraft engineered to reduce short-haul aviation carbon emissions by 80%.

  • King Fisher

    King Fisher

    The KingFisher is an autonomous, trans-medium uncrewed vehicle designed to revolutionize operations and maintenance for the offshore wind industry.

  • Helldivers

    Helldivers

    The H.E.L.L.D.I.V.E.R.S. team developed an innovative Mars entry, descent, and landing (EDL) system that intentionally embeds a lander into the Martian regolith to create a stable foundation for future human infrastructure.

  • Project Redshift

    Project Redshift

    Project Redshift explores the feasibility of humanity’s first interstellar reconnaissance mission to Proxima Centauri b, the closest known potentially habitable exoplanet.

  • Project SPINS

    Project SPINS

    Project S.P.I.N.S. explores an innovative approach to transporting cargo from the lunar surface to orbit using a reusable spin-launch system instead of traditional chemical rockets.

  • TALON

    TALON

    The Titan Autonomous Lander for Observation and Navigation.(T.A.L.O.N.) project is a conceptual spacecraft mission.