August 15, 2025
Team members from both Virginia Institute for Spaceflight & Autonomy and ODU Office of Enterprise Research and Innovation (OERI) have had their paper, “Assessing Communications Equipment Performance […]
Mission/Vision
The Virginia Institute for Spaceflight and Autonomy (VISA) is chartered to grow the entrepreneurial ecosystems for space flight and autonomy. The Institute will be the hub to leverage Virginia’s world-class assets in autonomous systems, space technologies, modeling and simulation and data science to solve real-world problems.
As part of ODU's Office of Enterprise Research & Innovation, VISA's vision is to create an environment of research, technology, commercialization and educational opportunities to grow the spaceflight and autonomous systems industry through industry, academic and governmental agency partnerships.
May 1, 2023
Onancock, VA. (May 1, 2023) – The Virginia Institute for Spaceflight & Autonomy (VISA), Riverside Health System (RHS), DroneUp, and the Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission (A-NPDC) […]
October 14, 2021
For centuries, a cartographer’s toolbox was stocked with compasses, protractors, pencils and telescopes. But today’s modern mappers have sophisticated toolboxes equipped with drones that, by air […]
September 9, 2021
ODU’s collaborations on Maritime Autonomous Surface Vessels continued over the summer of 2021 with advances and demonstrations in both the technology and the applications to coastal […]