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Latest Happenings in SLAB

Space Safety and Sustainability Study Part II Published

Jun 22, 2026
Professor D'Amico at the Silicon Valley & The U.S. Government Speaker Series

Jun 2, 2026
Samuel Low Awarded The Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship 2026/27

Jun 1, 2026
Ethan Foss Presents at ACC 2026

May 29, 2026
STARI Preliminary Design Review (PDR)

May 26, 2026
Professor D'Amico's AIAA Induction Ceremony

May 18, 2026

Full News History at SLAB

Space Safety and Sustainability Study Part II Published

June 22, 2026
Professor D'Amico at the Silicon Valley & The U.S. Government Speaker Series

June 2, 2026
Samuel Low Awarded The Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship 2026/27

June 1, 2026
Ethan Foss Presents at ACC 2026

May 29, 2026
STARI Preliminary Design Review (PDR)

May 26, 2026
Professor D'Amico's AIAA Induction Ceremony

May 18, 2026
Interview for Apogee

April 9, 2026
Yuji Takubo Wins Best Poster at AI4Space

April 6, 2026
Seminar at Princeton on Optimization and Learning-based Approaches

April 2, 2026
Contribution to the UNCOPUOS

January 22, 2026
Two Best paper award finalists at SciTech

January 22, 2026
Rare contribution to Journal-of-Astronomical-Telescopes-Instruments-and-Systems (JATIS)

January 22, 2026
Prof. D'Amico is selected to join the UNCOPUOS Expert Group on Space Situational Awareness

January 22, 2026
Prof. D'Amico elected as an AIAA Fellow

December 15, 2025
Filmmaking in SLAB

December 10, 2025
Magnificent photo by Sam dedicated to STARI mission

December 10, 2025
2025 Icon Award for Innovative Technology

December 10, 2025
Podcast on Space Autonomy

November 12, 2025

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Prof. D'Amico comments on the Quantum Tech

October 30, 2025

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Prof. D'Amico is Speaking at Silicon Valley Space Week

October 14, 2025

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First Hoover Workshop on Space Safety and Sustainability in Washington DC

October 14, 2025

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Space Safety and Sustainability, Part I

October 14, 2025

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SLAB spinoff: EraDrive

July 31, 2025

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Spotlight on Yuji by SoE

July 31, 2025

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Antonio representing us at ACC

July 10, 2025

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CAESAR at SpaceWERK USSF University Consortium

July 10, 2025

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Outstanding Advisor Award!

June 22, 2025

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Hosting the Governors’ Chiefs of Staff

June 22, 2025

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More News Coverage of STARFOX!

June 22, 2025

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Isobel wins William J. Perry Prize for her CISAC honors thesis

June 13, 2025

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StarFOX flight results from distributed cooperative vision of targets

May 18, 2025

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STARI kick-off!

May 18, 2025

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Breakthrough in Initialization of Vision-based Spacecraft Shape Estimation

May 18, 2025

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STARI kick-off soon!

May 18, 2025

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COSPAR best paper award to Jeff

May 4, 2025

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SLAB won the Durand Cup!

April 27, 2025

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Largest contribution of SLAB to AAS/AIAA conference

April 21, 2025
AA279D unique offering

April 8, 2025

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Presentation to Lockheed Martin on ARTMS/StarFOX

March 27, 2025

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Podcast alert: The Interconnect Space Episode is LIVE

March 20, 2025

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SLAB @ IEEE aerospace conference

March 7, 2025

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StarFOX+ RSO identification demo

February 20, 2025

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STARI announced!

February 14, 2025

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NASA Starling Award!

February 4, 2025

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Why astrodynamics is beautiful

January 31, 2025

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Our recent submissions to IEEE AeroConf

January 21, 2025

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VISORS Closed-loop Hardware-in-the-loop results!

January 10, 2025

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Prof. D'Amico's interview on Via Satellite

January 10, 2025

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SLAB Interstellar Social!

December 31, 2024

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Yuji and Zahra presenting at the Planetary Science and Exploration Seminar

November 6, 2024

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Justin and Prof. D'Amico heading to double-program review with AFOSR

November 6, 2024

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Presentation to International Council of JP Morgan

October 30, 2024

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The rise of AI for RPOD

October 30, 2024

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Astroscale using our research for RPO

October 15, 2024
Justin wins ION Bradford W. Parkinson Award

September 21, 2024

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Announcing new contracts with NASA and AFOSR

September 18, 2024

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NASA Deputy Administrator Visit

September 18, 2024

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More flight results (and videos) from StarFOX

September 9, 2024

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StarFOX on Space News

August 21, 2024

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Sharing updates on Starling 1.5!

July 26, 2024

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SLAB's appearance in Workshops

July 26, 2024

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Prof. D'Amico won the Best Advisor Award!

June 17, 2024

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Justin won the best PhD thesis!

June 17, 2024

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Cooperation with Redwire and Kuldeep Barad

June 10, 2024

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Landmark paper on StarFOX flight results is out

June 10, 2024

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Starling completed its primary mission!

June 2, 2024

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CAESAR kick-off event!

June 2, 2024

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News: Testing RPO kit with Ten One

May 4, 2024

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News: Prof. D'Amico on SPACENEWS Webinar

May 2, 2024

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News: Upcoming flight software delivery review

May 2, 2024

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News: 13 National media outlets visited the SLAB

May 2, 2024

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News: Latest flight results from StarFOX

April 23, 2024

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News: IEEE AESS 2020 Barry Carlton Award!

April 23, 2024

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News: CAESAR logo

April 16, 2024

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Prof. D'Amico's seminar at CU Boulder

April 10, 2024

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News: Justin becoming Postdoc!

April 5, 2024

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Prof. D'Amico as a Technical Advisor of Reflect

April 4, 2024

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News: CAESAR, new research center for Space X AI

March 8, 2024

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News: Space Day at Hoover Institution

March 8, 2024

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News: VISORS visualization in STK

February 19, 2024

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News: First Flight Results from StarFOX

January 17, 2024

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News: Building Cooperation with Array Labs

December 21, 2023

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News: Paper with Ten One Aerospace

December 14, 2023

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News: More AI/ML for Space

December 6, 2023

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News: SLAB at Hoover's Tech Track 2

November 29, 2023

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News: The 2023 Stanford Emerging Technology Review is Published

November 14, 2023

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News: Upcoming Department Seminar at Embry-Riddle

October 24, 2023

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News: AI for Space

September 26, 2023

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News: Updates on Starling Formation Flying Mission

September 1, 2023

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News: PhD Student Walter Manuel Wins 2023 AIAA San Francisco Section - Student of the Year

August 21, 2023

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News: Scout Space, Stanford University win Space Force contract extension

August 10, 2023
News: Briefing on the Stanford Emerging Technology Review

August 4, 2023

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News: Exoplanet Detection with Convolutional Neural Networks

August 4, 2023

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News: Successful Launch and Deployment of Starling

July 18, 2023

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News: NASA’s Starling Prepares to Launch

July 5, 2023

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News: Commencement 2023

June 19, 2023

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News: Starling and VISORS on Launch Manifest!

June 17, 2023

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News: Reflect - Solar Power After Dark using DSS

May 21, 2023
News: SSSI successfully launched 1U CubeSat

April 23, 2023
News: Celebrating 10 years of SLAB with 10 PhDs and their theses

March 30, 2023

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News: SLAB and Ten One Aerospace awarded Orbital Prime Direct-to-Phase II Contract by SpaceWERX

March 23, 2023

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News: Prof. D'Amico elected a Fellow of the American Astronautical Society (AAS)

January 18, 2023

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News: Prof. D'Amico joins Stanford Emerging Technology Review Faculty Council

December 2, 2022

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News: Latest SLAB Research at AFOSAR Program Review

November 28, 2022

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News: Professor D'Amico Named Associate Professor, by Courtesy, of Geophysics at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

November 6, 2022

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News: Prof. D'Amico Delivers Keynote Speech at 2022 European Conference for Computer Vision

October 17, 2022

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News: AA131 Focuses on Spaceflight and Sustainability

September 26, 2022

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News: New Collaborations, August 2022

August 12, 2022

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News: Concluding the AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference

August 11, 2022

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News: Meeting NASA Astronaut Col. David Randolph Scott

July 31, 2022

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News: SLAB Preprints Available for AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference

July 30, 2022

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News: Stanford Student Space Initiative Prepares for Launch!

July 28, 2022

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News: Sponsorship Opportunities for 2022 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference

July 20, 2022

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News: SLAB Students Commencement 2022

June 13, 2022

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News: SLAB Contributions to IWCFF 2022

May 28, 2022

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News: SLAB Wins US Space Force STTR Proposals

May 16, 2022

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News: Updates on the AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference 2022

May 15, 2022

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News: STARLING held Integration Readiness Review

January 11, 2022

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News: SWARM-X held Critical Design Review

January 11, 2022

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News: VISORS held Critical Design Review

January 11, 2022

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News: AIAA Small Satellite Best Paper Award from the SciTech 2021 Forum

October 25, 2021

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News: SLAB Generates SPEED+ Dataset for Training Autonomous Optical Navigation Algorithms

July 27, 2021

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News: SLAB Students Contribute to Flight Missions at NASA GSFC in Summer 2021

July 20, 2021

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News: SLAB to Present New Satellite Swarm Navigation Technologies at NASA SmallSat Technology Partnerships - TechExpo 2021

May 3, 2021

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News: SLAB's GNC Technology for Two Satellite Swarm Missions Passes Major PDR Milestones

April 12, 2021

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News: Prof. D'Amico talks about spacecraft swarm on The Future of Everything Podcast, SiriusXM

February 13, 2020

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News: Prof. D'Amico to Present at 2019 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

September 3, 2019

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News: Prof. D'Amico receives 2019 Leonardo 500 Award

January 31, 2019

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News: Space Rendezvous Lab (SLAB) and European Space Agency (ESA) host AI competition for space navigation

January 31, 2019

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News: Professor D'Amico's Space Rendezvous Lab (SLAB) Awarded FAI/NAA's Group Diploma of Honor in Astronautics

November 21, 2018

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News: SLAB's mDOT mission study selected by NASA Astrophysics

September 21, 2018

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News: Space Rendezvous Lab (SLAB) Awarded $1M+ from NASA and AFOSR for Research on Spaceborne Vision Navigation

September 12, 2018

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News: Professor D'Amico named AIAA Associate Fellow

August 28, 2018

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News: Precise relative navigation system for nanosatellites called DiGiTaL under testing at NASA GSFC

August 6, 2018

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News: Prof. D'Amico to deliver keynote speech at the 6th Annual IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE 2018)

May 18, 2018

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News: Space Mission Review: Stanford Freshmen Pitch their Space Missions to NASA

January 3, 2018

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News: Prof. D'Amico's proposal on autonomous nanosatellite swarming selected by NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP)

December 2, 2017

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News: Prof. D'Amico's Class Visits Space Systems Loral!

November 5, 2017

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News: Prof. D'Amico joins the American Astronautical Society Space-Flight Mechanics Technical Committee

September 24, 2017

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News: Space Rendezvous Lab Partners with Stanford Rocketry

September 4, 2017

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News: SLAB's mDOT Featured on Stanford News, Science X, New Atlas, and Numerous Media Outlets

August 7, 2017

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News: Prof. D'Amico set to speak at the 2017 Nasa Summer Series

June 14, 2017

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News: Prof. D'Amico wins Exemplary System Engineering Doctoral Dissertation Award

March 13, 2017

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News: Prof. D'Amico features in MIT Tech Review's article on Planet

March 5, 2017

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News: SLAB visits Planet!

November 11, 2016

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News: Autonomous rendezvous experiment featuring SLAB's work in orbit!

October 24, 2016

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News: SLAB's Research Featured in Stanford School of Engineering News

October 4, 2016

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News: New NSTRF Fellow Joins SLAB

September 30, 2016

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News: NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) Selects SLAB for Prestigious Award

August 19, 2016

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News: Professor D'Amico Gives Scientific Talk at SETI on Satellite Formation-Flying

August 12, 2016

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News: SLAB's Robotic Testbed for Space Rendezvous sees "First Light"

August 5, 2016

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News: SLAB Ph.D. Student Contributes to Orion as part of Nasa Space Technology Research Fellowship

July 12, 2016

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News: TRON – the Testbed for Rendezvous and Optical Navigation – enters the Grid

June 30, 2016

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News: SLAB Students Helps Push Gliders to the Edge of Space

June 25, 2016

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News: SLAB’s Cutting Edge Research on Spacecraft Pose Estimation Finds New Applications with Autonomous Quadcopters

May 9, 2016

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News: SLAB's mDOT Mission Concept Presented at Breakthrough Discuss Workshop

April 19, 2016

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News: SLAB Wins Competitive $1.5M Grant from Air Force Research Laboratory for Satellite Formation-Flying Research

March 15, 2016

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News: The Scientific and Engineering Space Community Gathers at Stanford to Discuss SLAB’s mDOT Mission Concept

February 4, 2016

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News: Professor D’Amico Lectures on Distributed Space Systems to Argentina’s Space Community

November 17, 2015

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News: SLAB Students Present at International Conferences!

June 28, 2015

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News: Professor D’Amico Presents at 14th ECC for Spacecraft Relative Motion GN&C tutorial session

March 12, 2015

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News: Prof. Terry Alfriend visits SLAB, delivers lectures on Formation Flying

December 14, 2014

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News: Professor D’Amico plays key role in fostering spacecraft formation flying research

December 12, 2014

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News: SLAB brings Space Navigation to SLAC Conference

November 7, 2014

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News: Professor D’Amico appointed Associate Editor for AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control & Dynamics

November 7, 2014

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News: SLAB awarded a NASA grant for miniaturized distributed space systems

October 27, 2014

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