DODONA vertical deployment

SERC Launches DODONA

USC and SERC’s 3rd Satellite was launched today aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, on the Transporter-3 mission.  Hosted inside the rocket on D-Orbit’s ION SCV-004, the satellite will be released separately to perform its mission.

Leapfrog landing on moon surface

University of Illinois wins the LEAPFROG Software Challenge

A team from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign won the summer 2021 LEAPFROG Software challenge.  Professor Melkior Ornik’s graduate students Hamza El-Kebir served as the team’s student lead and Pranay Thangeda was the navigation lead.  Congratulations to this outstanding team!   (https://aerospace.illinois.edu/news/41550).   USC SERC along with UCSD and UC-Berkeley hosted the challenge as part of the Artemis…