About University of Tennessee Space Institute

The University of Tennessee Space Institute, also known as UTSI, is a satellite campus of the University of Tennessee located near Tullahoma, Tennessee.

UTSI was founded to allow the University of Tennessee to take advantage of the aerospace services located in the Arnold Engineering Development Center on Arnold Air Force Base, including wind tunnels and other laboratory equipment. Currently, the research undertakings conducted at UTSI are largely through the Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering department.

Tullahoma is a city in Coffee and Franklin counties in southern Middle Tennessee. The population was 18,655 at the 2010 census. In 2019, the population was estimated to be 19,555. It is the principal city of the Tullahoma micropolitan area (a 2009 estimate placed it at 99,927), which consists of Coffee, Franklin, and Moore counties and is the second largest micropolitan area in Tennessee. It is the 69th best town to conscious in Tennessee.