Yana Charoenboonvivat and Shan Selvamurugan both received the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship will fund their research for the next 3 years. Shan will be working towards his PhD here in the SSDL, and Yana will be pursuing her PhD at MIT. A big congratulations to these students!

The TARGIT and GT-1 missions were launched to the ISS as part of the CRS-24 mission on December 21, 2021. The satellites will be deployed from the ISS in the coming months. This is an exciting milestone for the lab and all members of the teams that made this possible.

Congratulations to the following SSDL students on graduating in Fall 2021- Byron Davis and Kenneth Hart(PhD), Brandon Colón, Christopher Murphy, Daniel Nguyen, Kaushik Manchikanti, Maximilian Kolhof and Milad Mozayyni(MS). We wish them the best for the future!

SSDL is pleased to welcome Dr. John Christian who will be joining the Aerospace Engineering department as an Assistant Professor. He joins us from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he was an Assistant Professor of Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering and the Director of the Sensing, Estimation and Automation Laboratory.

His research interests are in image-based spacecraft autonomous navigation and has worked on software for NASA flight missions.

Congratulations to the following SSDL students on graduating in Spring 2021- Hao Chen(PhD), Philippe Clifton, Athreya Gundamraj, Abhijit Harathi, Bhavi Jagatia, Alex Lee, Ricky Macke, Will McNulty, Samuel Rapoport, & Ricardo Saborio(all MS). We wish them the best for the future!