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Last week, the ASRL family celebrated our Fourth PhD graduate Dr. James Hippelheuser. Congratulations Jim and all the best in your future endeavors.

Last February we attended the AAS GN&C Conference at Breckenridge, CO. Laura Jones presented her work investigating Transfer Learning in Guidance and Control for the EDL Problem.Great conference and community. Looking forward to coming back next year.

Congratulations Tahnsinul Haque Tasif (ASRL 3rd PhD) on successfully defensing his dissertation. Tasif developed a novel computational framework to accurately and efficiently compute the high-order State Transition Tensors for the perturbed two-body problem. 

Our paper titled, “New Geometric Approach for Multi Node Space-Based Orbit Estimation”, won the best paper award (3rd place) at the IAA Conference on Space Situational Awareness held in Washington D.C.

Ahmed Seleit won the prestigious ARL journeyman fellowship for his proposed work on real-time optimal trajectory design in congested dynamical environments.

In a group of 31 poster submissions and 3 winners, Hao Wang walked away with Second Place, and an approved $300 travel reward for her Submission Poster Title: NEURAL NETWORK TRAINED CONTROLLER FOR ATMOSPHERIC ENTRY IN MARS MISSIONS Abstract: We present a new method to design the controller of Mars capsule atmospheric entry using neural…

Sumayya Abukhalil was in the news for her work on the Brooke Owens Fellowship. March 22, 2017. http://mae.ucf.edu/aerospace-engineering-student-secures-inaugural-brooke-owens-fellowship/