Hao Chen, received the Luigi Napolitano Award at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Washington DC this week. This award is given by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) annually to a young scientist, under age 30, who has contributed significantly to Aerospace Science. 

Dr. Ho has received a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award and a NASA Early Career Faculty Award for two projects that utilize space system optimization.

We are pleased to announce two new professors who have joined SSDL as full-time faculty-Dr. Koki Ho, Assistant Professor and Dr. John Dec, Professor of Practice. 

Working alongside his advisor, Prof. E. Glenn Lightsey, William will use his NSTRF to support research into a new Doppler-based tracking system to be used to locate land rovers - and, eventually, people - on distant planets. He hopes to improve the Techonology Readiness Level (TRL) of this system.