Dear Colleagues, 

We are pleased to announce that Aerospace is now inviting nominations for the Aerospace 2023 Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to one young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the field of aerospace science, engineering and technology, disclosing theoretical, fundamental and applied results linked to potential applications that are related to research, design, manufacture, operations, control and maintenance of aircraft and spacecraft. All nominations will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief.

The Prize
− CHF 2000;
− Option to publish one paper free of charge in Aerospace after peer review before the end of 2024;
− An electronic certificate. 

Eligibility and Requirements
− Must have received their PhD no more than 10 years prior to 31 December 2023;
− Must have produced ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of research field;
− Candidates must be nominated by senior scientists. 

List of Documents for Nomination
– Detailed Curriculum Vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;
− Scanned copy of doctorate certificate;
− Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists. 

Schedule
− Open for nomination: 28 February 2023
− Nomination deadline: 31 October 2023
− Winner announcement: 31 December 2023

How to Submit Nominations?
Nominations must be submitted online at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/aerospace/awards.

Contact
Mr. Jason Wu
Marketing Assistant
Email: [email protected]
Aerospace Editorial Office   

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Aerospace 2022 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Aerospace from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. One review and one research article will receive an award each. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the Journal Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Kontis.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in Aerospace from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the Journal Award Committee according to the following criteria:
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

The Prize:
– One review award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Aerospace in 2024 after peer review;
– One research article award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Aerospace in 2024 after peer review;
– Each winner will also receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in March 2024.

Kind regards,
Aerospace Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Aerospace, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Aerospace 2023 Travel Award. The award has been granted to:

Dr. Mattia Pugliatti, a PhD student and early-stage researcher in DART laboratory, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Dr. Daniel Martinez-Sanchis, a PhD student in the Department of Space Propulsion, Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Dr. Panayiotis Tsokanas, a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (INEGI), Portugal.

As the awardees, they will each receive an honorarium of CHF 500 and an electronic certificate.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Kontis
Editor-in-Chief, Aerospace

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Aerospace, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Travel Award.

The award has been granted to Mr. Ioannis Lamprakis, a PhD student in Aerospace Engineering at Cranfield University, UK, and Mr. Zhengyi Wang, a PhD student at Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile, France.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decisions were challenging. We would like to thank all applicants for their submissions on a diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Kontis
Editor-in-Chief, Aerospace

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the “Aerospace 2021 Best Paper Award”. All papers published between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2021 in Aerospace were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, two winners were selected. 

One Review:
Compressive Behaviour of Additively Manufactured Lattice Structures: A Review
By Authors: Solomon O. Obadimu and Kyriakos I. Kourousis
Aerospace 2021, 8(8), 207; doi:10.3390/aerospace8080207 

One Article:
Aircraft Fleet Health Monitoring with Anomaly Detection Techniques
By Authors: Luis Basora, Paloma Bry, Xavier Olive and Floris Freeman
Aerospace 2021, 8(4), 103; doi:10.3390/aerospace8040103 

Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Aerospace in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Aerospace 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Aerospace. 

Kind regards,
Aerospace Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Aerospace 2020 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Aerospace in 2020 were considered for this award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, their number of citations, and their number of downloads, the three winning papers, which were nominated by the journal’s Award Committee, were selected as follows:

A Review of Concepts, Benefits, and Challenges for Future Electrical Propulsion-Based Aircraft
By Smruti Sahoo, Xin Zhao and Konstantinos Kyprianidis
Aerospace 2020, 7(4), 44; DOI: 10.3390/aerospace7040044

U-Space Concept of Operations: A Key Enabler for Opening Airspace to Emerging Low-Altitude Operations
By Cristina Barrado, Mario Boyero, Luigi Brucculeri, Giancarlo Ferrara, Andrew Hately, Peter Hullah, David Martin-Marrero, Enric Pastor, Anthony Peter Rushton and Andreas Volkert
Aerospace 2020, 7(3), 24; DOI: 10.3390/aerospace7030024

Large Constellations of Small Satellites: A Survey of Near Future Challenges and Missions
By Giacomo Curzi, Dario Modenini and Paolo Tortora
Aerospace 2020, 7(9), 133; DOI: 10.3390/aerospace7090133

Each award will consist of a certificate and the chance to publish an additional paper, with all publication fees waived, in open access format in Aerospace after the standard peer review procedure.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Aerospace 2020 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Aerospace.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Aerospace Travel Awards.

Andres Rivero Bracho is a PhD student at University of Bristol whose research focuses on composite camber morphing devices for fixed-wing applications. He presented his work “Numerically Efficient Three-Dimensional Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis for Composite Camber Morphing Aerostructures” at AIAA SciTech Forum 2020 in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Giulia Becatti is a PhD student at University of Pisa whose research focuses on space electric propulsion. She is planning to present her work “Plume Instabilities in a 25A LaB6 Hollow Cathode” at the Space Propulsion 2020 in Estoril, Portugal.

The awards consist of 650 Swiss Francs each towards attending the conference.

It was a difficult decision with so many high-quality applications for the awards, and we would like to thank all applicants for submitting their diverse and thought-provoking presentations. We congratulate the winners for their accomplishment.

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Kontis
Editor-in-Chief, Aerospace

Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310) is an open access journal of aeronautics and astronautics published monthly online by MDPI. It has been indexed in ESCI (Web of Science), Scopus (CiteScore 2018: 1.57), and INSPEC (IET) databases. Please find more information about Aerospace here: www.mdpi.com/journal/aerospace

For more journal awards, please check www.mdpi.com/journal/aerospace/awards for details.

Dear colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Aereospace, I am very pleased to announce the winners of the Aerospace 2019 Best Paper Awards.

The awards have been granted to:

Effects of Nozzle Pressure Ratio and Nozzle-to-Plate Distance to Flowfield Characteristics of an Under-Expanded Jet Impinging on a Flat Surface
By Duy Thien Nguyen, Blake Maher and Yassin Hassan
Aerospace 2019, 6(1), 4; https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/6/1/4

High-Bandwidth Morphing Actuator for Aeroelastic Model Control
By Sebastiano Fichera, Irma Isnardi and John E. Mottershead
Aerospace 2019, 6(2), 13; https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/6/2/13

Structured Control Design for a Highly Flexible Flutter Demonstrator
By Manuel Pusch, Daniel Ossmann and Tamás Luspay
Aerospace 2019, 6(3), 27; https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/6/3/27

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Aerospace in 2021.

On behalf of the Assessment Committee, I would like to warmly congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. The calibre of research that we received for the Best Paper Awards was outstanding. As such, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the nominated research groups that participated and acknowledge their contributions to Aerospace; finally, to thank the Award Committee for voting and helping these awards in being a great success.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Kontis, Aerospace

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Aerospace Travel Awards.

Landon Kamps, a PhD student at Hokkaido University, whose research focuses on hybrid rocket. He is planning to present his work “Development of N2O/HDPE Hybrid Rocket for Microsatellite Propulsion” at the 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2019) in Washington, D.C., USA.

Stefania Carlotti, a PhD student at Politecnico di Milano, whose research focuses on multiphase flow in solid rocket motors. She is planning to present her work “Performance and environmental impact prediction of SRMs. Road map for reliable dataset of particles in plume” at the 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2019) in Washington, D.C., USA.

The awards consist of 650 Swiss Francs each towards attending the conference.

It was a difficult decision with such high quality applications for the awards and we would like to thank all applicants for submitting their diverse and thought-provoking presentations. We congratulate the winners for their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Kontis
Editor-in-Chief, Aerospace

Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310) is an open access journal of aeronautics and astronautics published monthly online by MDPI. It has been indexed in ESCI (Web of Science), Scopus (CiteScore 2018: 1.57), and INSPEC (IET) databases. Please find more information about  Aerospace  here: www.mdpi.com/journal/aerospace

For more journal awards, please check www.mdpi.com/journal/aerospace/awards for details.

Dear Colleague,

Aerospace established the Best Paper Awards to recognize its best published original research articles.

Nominations were selected by the Editorial Office of Aerospace based on the number of citations, views and downloads from the website. All research articles published in 2018 were eligible for consideration. The selection committee was chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Kontis, and supported by the Editorial Board Members. They examined each paper and expressed their recommendations for the ranking of the “Aerospace Best Paper Awards” 2018.

Single-Sensor Acoustic Emission Source Localization in Plate-Like Structures Using Deep Learning
Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou and Salvatore Salamone
Aerospace 2018, 5(2), 50; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace5020050

Fast Aircraft Turnaround Enabled by Reliable Passenger Boarding
Michael Schultz
Aerospace 2018, 5(1), 8; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace5010008

Sound Absorption Characterization of Natural Materials and Sandwich Structure Composites
Jichun Zhang, Yiou Shen, Bing Jiang and Yan Li
Aerospace 2018, 5(3), 75; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace5030075

These three papers are valuable contributions to Aerospace. On behalf of the selection committee, we congratulate the winners for their significant contributions and thank them for choosing Aerospace to publish their best work. In recognition of their accomplishments, they will be awarded the privilege of publishing an additional research paper, with all publication fees waived, in open access format in Aerospace, after the standard peer-review procedure.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Aerospace Travel Awards.

Andrea Colagrossi, a PhD student at Politecnico di Milano, whose research focuses on the coupled orbit-attitude-flexible dynamics of extended space structures in non-Keplerian orbits. He is planning to present his work “Cislunar non-Keplerian orbits rendezvous & docking: 6DOF guidance and control” at the 69th International Astronautical Congress in Bremen, Germany.

Nikolaos Perakis, a PhD student at Technical University of Munich, whose research focuses on rocket propulsion. He is planning to present his works “Heat transfer and combustion simulation of a 7-element GOX/ GCH4 rocket combustor” and “Qualitative and quantitative comparison of RANS simulation results for a 7-element GOX/GCH4 rocket combustor” at the 54th AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

The awards consist of 600 Swiss Francs each towards attending these conferences.

It was a difficult decision with such high quality applications for the awards and we would like to thank all applicants for submitting their diverse and thought-provoking presentations. We congratulate the winners for their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Kontis
Editor-in-Chief, Aerospace

Aerospace established the Best Paper Awards to recognize its best published original research articles.

Nominations were selected by the Editorial Office of Aerospace based on the number of citations, views and downloads from the website. All research articles published in 2017 were eligible for consideration. The selection committee was chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Kontis, and supported by the Editorial Board Members. They examined each paper and expressed their recommendations for the ranking of the “Aerospace Best Paper Awards” 2017.

Design and Performance of Modular 3-D Printed Solid-Propellant Rocket Airframes
Rachel N. Hernandez, Harpreet Singh, Sherri L. Messimer and Albert E. Patterson
Aerospace 2017, 4(2), 17; doi:10.3390/aerospace4020017

Stochastic Trajectory Generation Using Particle Swarm Optimization for Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Babak Salamat and Andrea M. Tonello
Aerospace 2017, 4(2), 27; doi:10.3390/aerospace4020027

Design, Development and Testing of Shape Shifting Wing Model
Dean Ninian and Sam M. Dakka
Aerospace 2017, 4(4), 52; doi:10.3390/aerospace4040052

These three papers are valuable contributions to Aerospace. On behalf of the selection committee, we congratulate the winners for their significant contributions and thank them for choosing Aerospace to publish their best work. In recognition of their accomplishments, they will be awarded the privilege of publishing an additional research paper, with all publication fees waived, in open access format in Aerospace, after the standard peer-review procedure.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Aerospace Travel Awards.

Malte Merk, a PhD student at the Technical University of Munich, whose research focuses on identification of combustion noise and flame dynamics of confined turbulent flames. He is planning to present his work “Quantitative Comparisons between LES Predictions and Experimental Measurements of Sound Pressure Spectra in a Conned Swirl Combustor” at the AIAA 2017: Propulsion and Energy.

Vittorio Memmolo, a PhD student at the University of Naples Federico II, whose research focuses on Structural Health Monitoring of aerospace composite structures using reliable wave propagation methods. He is planning to present his work “Advanced Damage Detection in Stiffened Composites Using Distributed Sensors” and “Acousto-Ultrasonic Investigation on Composites for Electro Mechanical Impedance Method Assessment” at the 20th International Conference of Composite Structures.

The awards consist of 600 Swiss Francs each towards attending these conferences.

It was a difficult decision with such high quality applications for the awards and we would like to thank all applicants for submitting their diverse and thought-provoking presentations. We congratulate the winners for their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Kontis
Editor-in-Chief