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Summer 2016 Student Projects Review
Held on August 3rd, 14 students completed over 11 projects.

USC ISI and SERC Invited to Discuss Joint Projects with Dominican Republic

Discussion on Debris and Servicing at American Bar Association Space Law Event

Students educate attendee’s at Space Tech Expo on SERC projects
SERC has Booth at Space Tech Expo in Pasadena, May 23-26 2016.

SERC 2016 Summer Project with Palski & Associates
This summer, our team of undergraduate interns will work with USC’s Prof. David Barnhart to design a small satellite that could aid in situational awareness for DARPA’s satellite servicing missions.

ISI’s David Barnhart and Extreme Agriculture in Outer Space
A TREE GROWS IN SPACE

USC SERC to Be Represented at Space Tech Expo 2015 in Long Beach CA
leading showcase of space technology and services for spacecraft, satellite and launcher systems, subsystems, components and materials for civil, military and commercial space.

Discussion by D. Barnhart on Torah Kachur’s “What a Waste” CBC Radio, Changing Space “Trash into Treasure”
The amount of debris in space is rising exponentially and is a threat to astronauts, cosmonauts and martian colonizers. Scientists don't want to just clean it up......they're figuring out creative ways to re-use it.

Space Engineering Research Center Launches Nanosatellite
The size of a loaf of bread, Aeneas is the first nanosatellite able to track an object on the Earth's surface

Aeneas CubeSat to Deploy 2.4 GHz Dish Antenna
Built by students at the University of Southern California (USC) Aeneas is a 3U CubeSat planned to launch August 2, 2012 from the Vandenburg Air Force Base on an Atlas-5 rocket into a 880 x 450 km 60.4 degree inclination orbit.