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OCELOT: A new Moon navigation satellite selected in NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology Program Initiative
The University of Texas at Austin is one of nine university-led groups that was selected to move forward in the NASA SmallSat competition. Project OCELOT aims to improve navigation technology around the Moon, by using craters on the surface to navigate. OCELOT will be the first time the navigation technology will be demonstrated in orbit.…
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Changes to SERPENT
At the end of the Fall semester, the SERPENT team went through the next review of the UNP mission cycle, the Preliminary Design Review, or PDR. At this review, we received a lot of constructive criticism on individual subsystem performance as well as the overall mission architecture. After evaluating the feedback, it was determined that…
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Alexis Zinni ascends to student leadership role in Texas Spacecraft Lab
Alexis Zinni, the current student lab director had an article posted by the ASE department. Read more about it here!
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The TSL Says Hi To Hello World!
The TSL hosted ~30 Austin-area students from the Hello World K-12 computer science program. Ali Babool, Alejandra Naranja, and Alexis Zinni spoke with the students about their experiences in the TSL.
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NASA Reviews Seeker
The TSL and UT ASE Professor Maruthi Akella hosted representatives from NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) for the final in-person review of the Seeker 1 Vision software under development by Akella’s research group and the TSL. TSL students Nihal Dhamani, Gavin Martin, and Carson Schubert presented material to our JSC guests.
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TSL Studies With JSC
TSL director Noble Hatten and nine TSL students traveled to Pasadena, CA to take part in an A-Team study at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The goal of the study was to assess mission concepts under consideration by the TSL for upcoming proposal opportunities. The study was funded by a JPL Center for Academic Partnership…