Our proposal: Modular Active Self-Assembling Space Telescope Swarms has been selected for the 2018 NIAC Phase I. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program seeks to develop radical and revolutionary new concepts that could potentially lead to wholly new classes of
Congratulations to Daniel Garrett on Passing his A Exam!
Daniel Garrett successfully passed his A exam on May 24th, marking his entrance into the dissertation phase of his degree program.
A 30 Second History of Exoplanet Exploration
I recently updated a video I’ve been showing for the last few years in public talks on exoplanets. This shows the current population of known exoplanets, in order of discovery and coded by discovery method. The code to generate this
NASA Deputy Administrator Visits SIOSlab
As part of her recent visit to the Sibley School, NASA deputy administrator Dava Newman stopped by SIOSlab to hear about our work. We were all very excited to share our research, especially as so much of our support comes
SIOSlab at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes 2016
We attended the 2016 SPIE Astronomical Telescopes+Instrumentation meeting in Edinburgh and presented multiple cool thing. Links to talks here and here.
Congratulations to Joyce Fang on Passing Her A Exam
Joyce Fang successfully passed her A exam on Monday April 19th, marking her entrance into the dissertation phase of her degree program.
WFIRST Enters Phase A
NASA has announced the formal start of the WFIRST mission. See the press release here. SIOSlab will be playing a major role in this process as members of the coronagraph Science Investigation Team. Congratulations to all involved in getting this
NAE Bridge Article Published
I have had the great honor of having my review article presented at the last National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Meeting published in the Academy’s quarterly publication – The Bridge. The full text of the article can be
WFIRST Science Investigation Teams Selected
NASA has recently announced the selection of the Science Investigation Teams (SITs) for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) – the next major NASA mission with a planned launch in 2024. SIOSlab will be participating in the science investigation
JATIS Paper Published
Our new paper on WFIRST-AFTA mission simulation has been published in the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems. The article is available with open access here.