NASA Astronauts Suni Williams, Don Pettit, and retired NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore were featured on @nasa_marshall Instagram playing an emoji guessing game of projects they worked on while on the ISS featuring USC SERC developed technologies on CLINGERS and REACCH !  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNETgEtKHdk/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng%3D%3D

SERC held its End of Summer Review on August 4th, with presentations from PhD students and summer interns as well as project updates.

The SERC Summer team had two back-to-back seminars from a representative from DLR, Dr Roberto Lampariello who spoke about robotics optimization and challenges for various in space servicing tasks, and Dr Marco Diaz from University of Chile who presented their work on low cost science using Cubesats. Pictured in the photo is the ASTE Chairman…

Researchers at SERC presented at the Student Innovations in SpaceTech workshop at the IEEE SMC-IT Conference, held from July 28th-August 1st at the California Science Center. Optical Reef, CLINGERS, MAVERIC, and LEAPFROG were among the projects represented at the workshop and poster session. Distributed Control of an Evolving Space Structure Presenter: David Bacher Implementing ILS…

Kristina Andreyeva presented SERC research on STARFISH at the Mechanical Intelligence workshop for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Atlanta, GA.

Today we bid adieu to two Lieutenants from the French Air Force Academy that had done their graduate research internship at SERC.  Lieutenants Maxime Congard (pictured left with his wings on) worked on his project under PhD candidate David Bacher, entitled “Distributed GNC Algorithms for Aggregated Telescope Assemblies”.   And Lieutenants Hugo Serieys (picture on right…

SERC researcher Jonathan Messer got through his qualification exam today in the Department of Astronautical Engineering. His research focuses on satellite attitude control using Digital Micromirror Devices (DMD) to manage the effects of solar radiation pressure. He aims to repurpose a common micro-opto-mechanical system to extend the lifespan of spacecraft in high orbits to  improve…

An image of CLINGERS was featured on the NASA International Space Station blog, with astronaut Nichole Ayers featured holding Bumble during a CLINGERS software upload.

Nine SERC students presented six groundbreaking research papers at IAC 2024, showcasing USC’s pioneering work in space exploration.

On September 28, we cheered for Haley Topper as she accepted a job at Millennium Space Systems, celebrating her amazing journey at SERC!