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Congrats to the USC/UofA team that were finalists in NASA’s SUITS Challenge at Johnson Space Center!

Congratulations to our SERC High School Intern, accepted into Astronautics to MIT!
Ezra Eyre has been working at SERC on the CLING-ERS project.

USC and UA Students Are Developing an AR Interface to Inform Lunar Astronauts of Location, Vitals
Finalists in NASA “SUITS Up” Next Generation Astronaut Challenge Hopes to Foster Lunar Exploration.

USC CURVE Student Anushka Tahiliani showcased supporting LEAPFROG!
SERC has benefited over the last two years from the USC undergraduate research program, CURVE.

USC SERC part of new program with US Space Force University Partnerships
SERC along with the Department of Astronautical Engineering is proud to be part of USC’s ecosystem to support the US Space Force in their University Partnership Program kickoff!

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.

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…

“Dr” Rahul Rughani PhD Awarded
Congratulations to "Dr" Rahul Rughani for defending and receiving his PhD!

Discussion on Space Sector Hiring and Challenges from USC and MIT
Universities that pride themselves on offering hands-on instruction have been forced to modify their curriculum in light of a pandemic that prevents groups of students from gathering in laboratories to build cubesats, rockets and rovers.

USC SERC Supports Sustainable Space Digital Symposium from EPFL
#1 Sustainable Space Logistics digital symposium February 16-18th 2021