ORCCA Lab

Orbital Research Cluster for Celestial Applications (ORCCA) lab, led by Prof. Jay W. McMahon, University of Colorado Boulder

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Check out what Dr. Jay McMahon (ORCCA lab head and a participating scientist on the DART mission) has to say about the upcoming intentional spacecraft crash into an asteroid.
#DARTMission 🛰️

https://t.co/BG5byr1ANU

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Congratulations to Jacopo on being selected among the top 10 under 35s in Italy in the engineering sector; and also for being among the top 111 under 35's most influential people in Italy as declared by the Nova 111 list. Way to go! 🎉👏

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ORCCA welcomes David Dezell Turner 🎉🎉
Dezell graduated from MIT with a BS in Aerospace Engineering in 2022. He has volunteered as an ambassador for NASA’s Lucy Mission for three years. He is a member of both the Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program and the GEM Fellowship.

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ORCCA welcomes Kian Shakerin 👏👏
Kian is from Mission Viejo, California, and holds a Masters in Astrophysics from University of St Andrews, Scotland. Prior to joining CU, he worked as Spacecraft Flight Software Systems Engineer within NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at JSC, NASA.

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Congratulations to Anivid Pedros Faura (@AnividPedros) on winning the prestigious Amelia Earhart Fellowship 2022 🎉🎉

This fellowship is awarded annually to up to 35 women pursuing Ph.D./doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering and space sciences from all over the world.

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Congratulations to Jens Rataczak on getting awarded a 2022 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities fellowship! This annual program sponsors graduate students who show significant potential to contribute to NASA’s goal of creating innovative new space technologies.🎉

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🎉Congratulations to Rachel Cueva (@RachelCueva58) on getting awarded one of the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation! The fellowship recognizes outstanding students from across the country pursuing advanced degrees in STEM fields.🎉

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Check out Hermann's paper "Distributed Estimator for Spacecraft Cooperative Localization" which got published in the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics!
https://t.co/fTq9uIU0r5

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ORCCA had a great time this week catching up with a few alumni! 😃
We are looking forward to meeting the prospective students in the coming week.

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🎉Congratulations to Spencer for winning 1st place in the Student Competition at Rocky Mountain AAS GN&C Conference! 🎉
He presented his work titled "Rapid Local Trajectory Optimization in Cislunar Space".

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Congratulations to Dr. Jay McMahon on receiving Outstanding Faculty Graduate Advisor Award!
Link: https://t.co/DbDuZXwtER

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Check out Spencer's paper "Variable Time-of-Flight Spacecraft Maneuver Targeting Using State Transition Tensors" which was just published online in the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics!
Link: https://t.co/lJYeGNwOA5

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👋 Meet Spencer Boone! Spencer is an Aerospace Engineering Sciences major at @CUBoulder. This summer, he is supporting @NASAGoddard.

#NASAInterns #SCaNInternProject

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🎉🎉 Congratulations to Hermann Kaptui Sipowa for winning the AAS John V. Breakwell Student Travel Award 2022.
🎉🎉

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Check out Ryan's paper "Optical Gravimetry Mass Measurement Performance for Small Body Flyby Missions" which was just published online in Planetary and Space Science.
Kudos @rybull72!
https://t.co/csdSWfFbtK

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Congratulations to Shayna Hume on winning the Future Space Leaders Foundation Fellowship, which will sponsor her to travel and present her research at IAC 2021 in Dubai.

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Evan's journal paper titled "Multi-Event Jettison Guidance Approaches for Drag-Modulation Aerocapture", was published online in the Articles in Advance section of the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. Kudos to him! https://t.co/1yIWqNvmZh

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Congratulations to ORCCA head Dr. Jay McMahon for being selected for a groundbreaking NASA mission to test asteroid deflection technology.
https://t.co/zKJrjV2beE

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Congratulations to Evan Roelke for getting his journal article titled “Discrete-Event Drag-Modulated Guidance Performance for Venus Aerocapture” published in JSR.
Check out the article at https://t.co/bP6fwCUYNS

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A special shout-out to @DekaTaralicin for winning a Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant!