When Will Space Flight Be As Safe as Air Flight?
USC Viterbi adjunct professor and rocket scientist, Michael Kezirian, makes a case for why advancing space safety measures advances space exploration.
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Astronautical Engineering News Back to News Archive
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“The Best Educated Class In Our History”
At the 2022 commencement ceremony, undergraduates shared laughter, tears and hugs as they embark on a new journey
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“The World Impatiently Waits For You”: 1100 USC Viterbi Master’s Students Graduate
First in-person, satellite ceremonies in two years feature four-star general and former CEO of Yahoo and Verizon Media as speakers
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“Do Better Than Us”: Three Years of USC Viterbi Ph.D.s Receive Their Hoods.
At the 2022 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony, 215 new graduates join Trojan forebears like Andrew Viterbi and Wanda Austin.
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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
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“Life Is Matter Plus Algorithms”
Annual USC Viterbi-Axilor Series Inspires Innovators and Entrepreneurs
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USC Launches its 3rd Satellite into Space
Satellite Dodona, with its novel Lockheed Martin La Jument payloads, is part of SpaceX’s Smallsat Rideshare Program, will ride Transporter 3 mission to space
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The Future of Solar System Modeling and Potential to Identify New Bodies
USC Viterbi Adjunct Associate Professor and JPL Principal Engineer Ryan Park will work on a new commission to produce high precision solar system models, potentially improving our ability to navigate and understand outer space.
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Undergraduate Researchers Impress Viterbi Community With CURVE Symposium Posters
Over 100 USC Viterbi undergraduates present their year-long research projects virtually at the 2021 Viterbi Research Symposium
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Ten USC Viterbi Students Honored with Aerospace Fellowship
A collaboration between the USC WiSE program and the Aerospace Corporation, this prestigious fellowship offers students the opportunity to gain real-life industry experience and develop their skills
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Commencement 2021: Engineering Grads Take Center Stage at L.A. Coliseum For First Time in 71 Years
In a return to in-person graduation, the Class of 2020 and 2021 celebrate “passage to a post-COVID new world”
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Class of 2021: Shobhita Rajashekar
Master’s student and class of 2021 graduate Shobhita Rajashekar hopes to get each and every one of us curious about space.
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How Do You Build a Rocket Without a Lab?
How USC’s renowned Rocket Propulsion Laboratory took one of the most hands-on clubs on campus remote.
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Five Questions about Space with Garrett Reisman
An audio conversation about space tourism, sustainability and pizza.
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USC Viterbi Professors Azad Madni and Jong-Shi Pang Inducted into the National Academy of Engineering
An optimization expert who harnesses mathematics to improve industries and a leader in astronautical and systems engineering are USC Viterbi’s newest members of the National Academy of Engineering.
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Mr. “Astropreneur”
Joe Landon has spent more than a decade working toward the day when millions of people can live and work in space
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STARFISH: Space Exploration’s Newest Star
USC’s Space and Engineering Research Center looks to the star-shaped sea creature for their groundbreaking soft robotics project.
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Azad Madni Receives Prestigious Award from National Defense Industrial Association
Professor of astronautical engineering and director of the Systems Architecting and Engineering program receives individual recognition for his contributions to the systems engineering discipline.
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USC Viterbi Student and Air Force Officer Makes Plans to Go to Space
U.S. Air Force officer and astronautical engineering graduate student, Edward Proulx, prepares to fly into space at USC.
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After a record-breaking deployment Navy Officer returns to USC for second graduate degree
Jonathan Messer, M.S. ’18, put his systems engineering degree to use during a global pandemic and a humanitarian mission in Central America. He’s now taking it to outer space.
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Unlocking the Secrets of the Smallest Dwarf Planet
JPL Engineer and Adjunct USC Viterbi Professor Ryan Park confirms that dwarf planet Ceres is water-rich and geologically active.
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USC Viterbi Offers Two New Short Courses: “Viterbi vs. Pandemics!” and “Sustainable Energy”
Both lecture series launch the week after Labor Day, offering students a comprehensive faculty coverage of COVID-19 and a series on sustainable energy with Dean Yortsos
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USC Wins First Place in the AIAA Small Satellite Student Competition
USC Viterbi students design an ionic electrospray thruster to help fill in the propulsion gap for small satellites.
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One Giant LEAPFROG For Humanity
USC students and researchers at ISI SERC are building a lunar landing flight vehicle as part of NASA’s Artemis program.
