Facilities and Laboratories

The Aerospace Human Systems Laboratory aims to utilize Techshot’s Multi-use Variable-gravity Platform (MVP) system to perform the bubble nucleation experiments. The MVP, is a small centrifuge on board the International Space Station capable of creating artificial gravity up to 2 g on timescales of multiple weeks.

Ballistic, Aero-optics, and Materials (BAM) Range at the George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex will be a large-scale, fully-enclosed multi-disciplinary research and development facility capable of evaluating high energy laser propagation, hypersonic aerothermodynamics, and hypervelocity impact response of materials and structures. This is accomplished within a fully characterized test channel that can achieve controllable atmospheric conditions. Once completed, the BAM Range will be the largest and most fully instrumented facility of its kind in the United States.

The Bioastronautics and Human Performance (BHP) Laboratory focuses on investigating human performance in extreme environments and developing technologies and countermeasures to improve human health and performance.

The Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center is dedicated to combating adversaries who desire to harm our citizens, our government, and our industry through cyber-attacks. The Center seeks to advance the collective cybersecurity knowledge, capabilities, and practices, doing so through ground-breaking research, novel and innovative cybersecurity education, and mutually beneficial academic governmental and commercial partnerships. Working with researchers, faculty, and industry leaders, the Center stands committed to make outsized contributions to social good through the development of transformational cybersecurity capabilities.

The Cyclotron Institute focuses on conducting basic research, educating students in accelerator-based science and technology, and providing technical capabilities for a wide variety of applications in space science, materials science, analytical procedures and nuclear medicine. Approximately 100 Institute members – scientists, engineers, technicians, support staff, graduate students and undergraduate students – are involved in these programs.

Since 1989, the High Performance Research Computing (HPRC) group, formerly the Supercomputing Facility, has been dedicated to be a resource for research and discovery at Texas A&M University. We support more than 2,000 users including more than 400 faculty members. Our users use our computing resources for cutting edge, collaborative, and transformative research including, but not limited to, materials development, quantum optimization, and climate prediction. We will continue to promote emerging computing technology to researchers, and assist them in using it for research and discovery.

The Human Clinical Research Building (HCRF) is a 23,000-square-foot biomedical research facility specifically designed to perform human clinical trials at TAMU. Built in 2017, this modern building contains hospital-style research rooms with 12 beds with adjacent bathrooms and showers for overnight stay research; a metabolic kitchen to prepare and administer meals; a nursing station that can monitor and communicate with participants in study rooms; a sample processing lab; a comprehensive physiological assessment lab with 6 exam rooms that can conduct a wide variety of cardiovascular, metabolic, exercise, body composition, balance, and biomedical assessments; a comprehensive wet lab to analyze blood, urine, feces, and/or tissue samples; a clean room for mixing pharmaceutical grade oral and intravenous solutions; a comprehensive rehabilitation and exercise training facility with an exam/phlebotomy room and bathroom/changing area; a short arm human centrifuge for gravity dose research (which will support spaceflight research as well as collaboration with NIH); a computerized-access data storage area; a conference/lecture room; a break room; and, offices for up to 24 faculty/staff and 24 research assistants and students.

The Texas A&M University System’s hypersonics-related research, development and testing capabilities encompass facilities and infrastructure that address the nation’s need to accelerate integration of emerging technologies into combat and battlefield support systems.

The laboratory research is aimed at enabling unique high-rate materials characterization and multiscale numerical model development and implementation. The TAMU HVIL, operated by a team of distinguished researchers, provides a testbed for the development and tailoring of novel monolithic, layered, and architected structures comprised of polymers, composites, metals, ceramics, soft materials, gels, and geomaterials to mitigate HVI threats (e.g., hypersonic weapons, micrometeoroid/orbital debris, atmospheric reentry conditions).

The Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering builds on the interface between Quantum Mechanics, General Relativity, and Biophotonics to advance our understanding of the Universe and its emergent properties. We promote the spirit of discovery by supporting vibrant research programs and bringing scientists from all over the world to debate, question, and solve the most profound questions of our time.

The Land, Air, and Space Robotics (LASR) Laboratory is an aerospace engineering and robotics research facility at Texas A&M. The lab conducts research to solve challenging problems in the fields of astrodynamics, spacecraft proximity operations and rendezvous, autonomy, robotic sensing, swam robotics, and tensegrity. Some recent applications of our work include space domain awareness, aquatic and on-orbit proximity operations, adaptive detumbling of uncontrolled spacecraft, and entry, descent, and landing (EDL) testbed development. We are affiliated with NASA, the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Naval Research (ONR), and more. 

Provides an unparalleled opportunity for food science and technology undergraduate and graduate students to obtain hands-on experiential learning on food processing technologies. The students who are hired as student researchers at the Space Food Research Facility (SFRF) work closely with NASA and its contractor (KBR) to prepare foods for the US astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS). The students’ primary focus is to assist NASA in preparing thermostabilized foods for the ISS.

The National Center for Electron Beam Research (NCEBR) is the leading academic and research organization in the world that is focused on the research, development, and commercialization of Electron Beam (eBeam) technologies. Our goal is to harness this technology for improving the quality of life of peoples and economies around the world.

The goal of the Nuclear Engineering and Science Center is to improve the health, well-being and environment of mankind through the application of nuclear technology. The Nuclear Engineering and Science Center, located near the southwest side of Easterwood Airport, provides services to researchers and/or faculty from Texas A&M University, other colleges and universities, government agencies and private industry. The center is recognized primarily for providing radioisotopes and other nuclear irradiation services for research, academic, medical and industrial applications and as a teaching and nuclear training facility.

Our mission is to design and deploy resilient robots tailored for harsh terrestrial and extraterrestrial environments, while fostering safe exploration and collaboration between humans and robots. We will cultivate the next generation of engineers, guiding them to usher in the next chapter of robotics.

Here in the SEAK Lab, we are passionate about space, artificial intelligence, and design. Our research focuses on applications of optimization, knowledge representation and reasoning, and machine learning to improve autonomous decision making and decision support for the design and operation of space systems. We are particularly interested in novel space mission concepts that leverage autonomy and distributed architectures to enable unprecedented capabilities and performance, such as networks of smart small satellites for responsive Earth observation.

The Texas A&M Global Cyber Research Institute (GCRI) endowed by Ray Rothrock ’77 and Anthony Wood ’87 was created in 2021 to elevate Texas A&M’s efforts in the broad information security area. The institute incorporates under it the Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center which has been in existence in its current form since 2015.
The institute is jointly administered by Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and it will assist in engagement and coordination of information security and cyber defense programs within TEES and Texas A&M University colleges, institutes and centers.

The centerpiece of the Nuclear Engineering & Science Center is a 1-megawatt TRIGA (Testing, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) reactor, an open “swimming pool”-type research reactor cooled by natural convection, providing passive and inherent safety. The core consists of cylindrical fuel elements reflected with graphite. In this configuration, samples can be easily loaded and unloaded for long and short irradiations ranging from a few seconds to multiple days. Ample space is available on our mezzanine to provide monitoring capabilities during irradiation.