It was a pleasure to join our AIAA students at the AIAA Region II Conf this year! They did a great job and brought home two 1st place and one 2nd place awards. 🏆👏🧑‍🎓 Next year we will be co-hosting the conference with FLORIDA at Cocoa Beach! Stay tuned! news.fit.edu/panther-bites/…

Our MECO mission had a successful System Concept Definition (SCR) presentation Air Force Research Lab - AFRL yesterday! Next step: requirements definition. Congratulations team, you did amazing! 👏🚀🛰️ Thank you to all the thoughtful reviewers! #SCR #CubeSat

The SPACE Lab had a wonderful time at our meetings and tour at @OneWebSatellit1 today. Thank you for showing us around -- what an amazing facility! 🛰

Our PI did her PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and she was mentioned at MIT News this week! She was one of the people that Evan Kramer took "Astro Portraits" of! In the picture, she is holding a replica of BeaverCube, an MIT STAR Lab CubeSat she worked on. #Astrophotography news.mit.edu/2023/astro-por…

We received a visit from a group of international students here at Florida Tech this week, and our PI was the one representing the Aerospace Engineering program. It was great to talk about all the #spaceexploration research we do here! 🧑‍🎓🛰️

What a great workshop! #uranus2023 was eye-opening. There is so much great science being done ahead of the flagship mission! We had the pleasure to present on a mission concept of a swarm of CubeSats to explore the atmosphere of #uranus.

Last week was busy! On Friday, our team was at Albuquerque for the final presentation of the Mission Concept 1 program with the Air Force Research Lab - AFRL and NASA. We are extremelly thankful for the life-changing opportunities that this program has provided us! #CubeSat #Research

So thankful for having been featured in NASA Edge! Make sure to watch the video to see our students and PI working, and hear about one of our current projects. The Mission Concept 1 Program has been life-changing! Thank you NASA and Air Force Research Lab - AFRL for the opportunity!

The SPACE Lab PI and 9 students are at the #SmallSat Conference! We've been here since Saturday and presented two posters besides being mentioned by NASA/AFRL/UNP! We've been learning a lot and loving the event. Let's go, small satellites! 🚀🛰🪐

We are incredibly thankful and proud to have one of our posters place first in the student poster competition at the Small Satellite Conference Conference! Dylan and Andrew did a great job, and you can find their full paper in the conference proceedings: digitalcommons.usu.edu/smallsat/2023/… Florida Tech Research

The Network for Ocean Worlds (NOW)'s "Making Waves" highlight of this month is our PI's PhD thesis research! Done at MIT AeroAstro in collaboration with Stone Aerospace, NASA JPL, University of Washington, and University of Pittsburgh, they validated models for melt probes to decent the ice of Europa! oceanworlds.space/makingwaves/

Today John Nicklow (Dr. John Nicklow) visited the SPACE Lab! We talked about our current projects, showed some mock-up CubeSats, and displayed orbital calculations. What a great conversation we had! Thank you for the visit! 🛰️🚀🎓 Florida Tech

CAMID Florida Tech recently acquired a great machine from nScrypt Inc.! It can print, deposit conductive materials, mill, measure, and a lot more. Thank you Luis and Josue for training us on how to use the machine! We look forward to using it in our research! #3Dprinting 🤓⚙️🔧

What an honor to join Rob Salonen in representing Florida Tech at the Space Coast Honors event last week! Florida Tech received the Large Business of the Year Award -- thank you to everyone who helped make that a reality! #SpaceCoast 🏆🛰️🚀🎉

The SmallSat Education Conference last weekend was a success! The SPACE Lab was one of the hosts, and Florida Tech was a sponsor. We had a booth, a student presentation, sessions being hosted, and a lot of learning! Looking forward to next year! 🚀🛰️🎉 smallsateducation.org

The #Spacepower Conference last week was amazing! Seeing so many Guardians and industry members coming together to talk about space was inspiring. Congrats to the Space Force Association for organizing the first-ever conference focused on the Space Force. See you again next year! 🚀🛰️

This year started with two presentations at #AIAASciTech! We talked about a mission concept for a CubeSat and new potential uses of an open-source #python based software. Great job to all presenters! It was great to be part of the largest aerospace conference in the world! 🛰️🚀

One of the best parts of our job is inspiring the next generation of space explorers. 🧑‍🎓🛰️ Yesterday, we spent a few hours with thousands of K-8 kids at Junior Achievement's #JAInspire event. We loved talking about space with all those kids! Thanks, Central Florida AIAA Chapter, for inviting us to your booth!

Now it's official! Congratulations, John Nicklow, on your presidential investiture! We can't wait to see what great things you will lead our university into! It was a pleasure to be there and applaud you last Friday! #NewPrez #FloridaTech #Investiture

Our lab's first thesis defense! Congratulations on your Master's, Dylan Barnes! More papers and presentations on his research are to come soon. 🤓 Thank you, Dr. Eric Swenson and Dr. Ryan White, for being on the thesis committee! 🧑‍🎓🚀🎉 #masters2024 #smallsat #aerospace