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Benjamin Jorns

Kate McAlpineJanuary 25, 2023

Plasma thrusters used on satellites could be much more powerful

It was believed that running more propellant through a Hall thruster would wreck its efficiency, but new experiments suggest they might power a crewed mission to Mars.

Michigan Aerospace EngineeringJanuary 20, 2023

University of Michigan’s Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory share 2022 AIAA Electric Propulsion Best Paper Award

The lab has won this award five times in the last six years

Michigan Aerospace EngineeringJune 10, 2022

Benjamin Jorns Receives Department of Energy Early Career Research Award

Jorns awarded 5 years of funding for advanced plasma research

Laura SchmittAugust 13, 2021

Jorns’ predictive Hall thruster model research receives Best Paper award

The data-driven approach to developing better predictive models will result in faster and higher-fidelity engineering models for advanced rocket propulsion systems.

Laura SchmittJuly 26, 2021

Apollo 15 at 50: A celebration of the all-Michigan crew’s mission and the future of space exploration

July 30 virtual event highlights future lunar and deep space missions, the technologies to get there, and U-M’s research contributions to space exploration.

Nicole Casal MooreMay 12, 2021

Testing advanced space engines here on Earth

U-M is a member of a new $15M institute to improve physics-based modeling of advanced thrusters for human space exploration.

Madeline TrumbauerMay 6, 2021

Michigan on team selected for $15M NASA institute to investigate testing of advanced propulsion concepts

The NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate has selected the Joint Advanced Propulsion Institute (JANUS) to explore high power electric propulsion systems for human exploration. Michigan Aerospace alumnus Mitchell Walker of the Georgia Institute of Technology will be the principal investigator and director. U-M Assistant Professor Benjamin Jorns will serve as co-director.

Madeline TrumbauerApril 6, 2021

Congratulations to Michigan Aerospace Assistant Professor Benjamin Jorns on receiving the AIAA Lawrence Sperry Award

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has awarded U-M Aerospace Assistant Professor Benjamin Jorns with the prestigious Lawrence Sperry Award at the 2021 AIAA Aerospace Spotlight Awards Gala

Michigan Aerospace EngineeringJune 23, 2020

To the Moon and beyond: How University of Michigan Aerospace Engineering is on the cutting edge of electric space propulsion

The University of Michigan Aerospace Engineering Department’s Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory (PEPL) is developing the next-generation of Hall thruster technology that may one day propel the first human missions to Mars.

Michigan Aerospace EngineeringNovember 7, 2018

Aerospace Engineering Assistant Professor Benjamin Jorns is awarded AFOSR Young Investigator Program award for electric thruster research

Congratulations to Professor Jorns, awardee of the AFOSR Young Investigator Program award

Michigan Aerospace EngineeringJuly 26, 2018

Current and Future Aerospace Engineering students receive prestigious fellowships

Congratulations to Leanne Su, Angela Kimber, Christopher Sercel, LoriAnn Groo, and Iman Javaheri for receiving prestigious NSF and NSTRF fellowships

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