Stanford University and Saudi Arabia’s KACST have launched a new six-year collaborative research partnership to establish a center to develop new liquid rocket fuels for satellite applications, according to the Northern California-based university.
KACST is the science agency and national laboratory of Saudi Arabia. Its researchers have worked with Stanford before, but creation of the center will increase the scope of joint research during the next six years, according to Charbel Farhat, the Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures and chair of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at Stanford Engineering. “Saudi Arabia is on a global push to raise its technological profile in a variety of ways, and we’re pleased to be part of their aerospace initiatives,” said Farhat, who will be personally involved in collaborative research.
