The Space Systems Design Lab is happy to welcome two new faculty members joining our lab-Dr. Christopher Carr, Assistant Professor; and Dr. Anna Erickson, Adjunct Professor.

Hang Woon Lee, has received the AAS Molly K. Macauley Award for his paper and presentation about the startup challenges in the space-based communications industry.

SSDL Professors Dr. Lightsey and Dr. Ho are featured in this semester's 'We are the Engineers' magazine by the College of Engineering for their work in advancing space exploration technology. Dr. Lightsey's work on his team's efforts to build autonomous miniature spacecrafts to match performance of large spacecrafts. Also mentioned was his work with developing propulsive technologies for use on CubeSats. Dr. Ho and his Space Systems Optimization Group's research on using mathematical models to solve space transportation logistics problem.

Congratulations to the Spring 2020 graduates : Steve Hall, Giovanny Guecha-ahamada, Luke Renegar, Devin Wu, Phillip Szot and Chris Carter(all MS)

Alex Lee, has received the DoD's National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship for his proposal on 'Improving the precision level of relative positioning of satellites (probably small sats) by using quantum metrology so that formation flying satellites can have improved capability on remote sensing, etc.'