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SSDC Lab Poster Presentation at the 2025 NSF FRR-NRI Annual Meeting
Achira Boonrath represented the SSDC Lab at the NSF FRR-NRI Annual Meeting last week. Our poster demonstrated recent findings on modeling, design, and operation of robotic tether-net systems for the reliable capture of uncooperative targets. Sample video results were also prepared alongside the poster; the videos can be viewed at the following link: adamslab-ub/Learning-Tether-Net-Maneuver-IEEE-TAES-2025
3 days ago


Undergraduate Students From the SSDC Lab Presented Their Works at the AIAA Region 1 Student Conference
Members of the SSDC lab attended the 2025 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Regional Student Conference which...
Mar 24


Paper published on AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets
Our latest article, "Robustness and Safety of Net-Based Debris Capture Under Deployment and Environmental Uncertainties," has been...
Feb 10


2 papers presented at the 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC)
The UB SSDC Lab recently participated in the 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) on 14-18 October 2024. Ph.D. students from...
Nov 13, 2024


First Ph.D. student successfully defends thesis
Congratulations to Derek Bourabah for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Principal Moment of Inertia Estimation of Tethered...
Sep 24, 2024


Paper published on IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Our recent work titled “Q-Law Control with Sun-Angle Constraint for Solar Electric Propulsion” has been accepted for publication in IEEE...
Sep 24, 2024


Two papers presented at the 2024 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference
Grant Hecht presented two works at the 2024 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, that took place in Broomfield, Colorado. 1....
Sep 24, 2024


Breakwell Award at Astrodynamics Specialist Conference
Last week, Dr Botta and Grant Hecht attended the AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference in Big Sky, Montana. Grant presented the...
Aug 23, 2023


Paper published on Acta Astronautica
Our paper "Particle Swarm Optimization-based co-state initialization for low-thrust minimum-fuel trajectory optimization" has been...
Jul 6, 2023


Alexa wins Undergraduate Student Paper Award
The 2023 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Regional Student Conference took place at UB on 31 March - 1 April....
Apr 4, 2023


Dr. Botta wins SEAS Early Career Teacher of the Year Award
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences honored faculty and staff with the SEAS Awards and Service Recognition Reception on March...
Apr 4, 2023


Haley is awarded the Bauer Foundation WiSE Experiential Learning Fund
Undergraduate student Haley Parker was awarded the Bauer Foundation Experiential Learning Fund by UB Women in Science and Engineering...
Mar 16, 2023


UB SEAS Poster Competition
After his second place at the MAE Student Poster competition, Grant Hecht presented his research at the Poster Competition of the UB...
Mar 16, 2023


Students present research at the 2023 MAE Poster Competition
Four students from the UB SSDC Lab (Liam Field, Grant Hecht, Derek Bourabah, and Achira Boonrath) participated in the 2023 MAE Poster...
Feb 7, 2023


2 papers presented at the 33rd AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting
Last week, we presented 2 papers at the AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, that took place in Austin, TX. We also spent time with...
Jan 24, 2023


High-school student visit UB SSDC Lab
Last week, we talked about #spacedebris, tether-nets, and tethered satellite systems to high school students interested in STEM. Thanks...
Nov 7, 2022