Status Quo

"The committee recommends that representatives from relevant government agencies,the aerospace industry, including the emerging private sector and the academic community work together to develop a coordinated national strategy to ensure an effective aerospace workforce ecosystem."

from Building a Better NASA Workforce: Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration, THE NATIONAL ACADEMIC PRESS, 2O07

Research Focus

The center’s technology portfolio focuses on the development of an infrastructure that enables multi-satellite systems. Such systems would involve heterogeneous satellites operating independently in constellations and/or swarms, or coalesce autonomously on-orbit to form larger monolithic satellites. The center’s application specific R&D philosophy consist of following a concurrent engineering philosophy that is game-changing. The application specific aspects will be technology drivers for advancing the state-of-the-art (SOA) in all of the satellite subsystems; i.e., command and data handling (C&DH), guidance, navigation and control (GN&C), telemetry and command (TT&C), electrical power system (EPS), structures and thermal, propulsion, groundstation, and payload.