Monday, June 29, 2015

2015 CanSat Competion

The Raven Knights, a group of students representing Carleton University, ranked third in the 2015 CanSat competition; world's largest and most prestigious space-related undergraduate competition. This annual design-build-launch competition, organized by the American Astronautical Society (AAS) and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics... More

Thursday, April 16, 2015

NSERC Scholarships

Congratulations to Jian-Feng Shi and Kirk Hovell for having been awarded a NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D3, and CGS-M, respectively), and to Bradley Kuiack for having been awarded an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award... More

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Siddharth Kedare’s Successful Defence

Congratulations to Siddharth Kedare for the successful defence of his M.A.Sc. thesis entitled: "Space Environment Modeling and Torque-Optimal Guidance for CubeSat... More

Monday, November 17, 2014

Partnership with Neptec Design Group Ltd.

Under funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Carleton University’s Spacecraft Robotics and Control Laboratory partners with Neptec Design Group Ltd. on an industrial R&D project related to the development of relative navigation software enabling autonomous rendezvous and docking with... More

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Partnership with MDA Space Missions

Under funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Carleton University's Spacecraft Robotics and Control Laboratory partners with the Guidance, Navigation and Control Department at MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Inc. (MDA) on an industrial R&D project related to the development of guidance and... More

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Air Bearing Table

The Spacecraft Robotics and Control Laboratory recently acquired a 20,000 pound air bearing table made from a single slab of solid impala black granite. Quarried in Graniteville, Vermont, the 12 feet by 8 feet, 13″ thick air bearing table arrived at Carleton University in Ottawa (ON), on June 27, 2014. While tables of similar sizes... More

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

YouTube Channel

The lab’s YouTube Channel has been recently created. Check out the lab’s first experimental results on... More

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

AIAA GN&C Technical Committee

Professor Ulrich was recently selected as a new regular member of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Technical Committee. His appointment officially begins on May 1st 2014, for a period of three years. The American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics’ (AIAA’s) technical committees form the foundation of AIAA principal... More

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

CBC/Radio-Canada Interview

Prof. Ulrich was recently interviewed by Colette Mersy for “Les années lumières”, a french CBC radio broadcast dedicated to science and technology. Follow this link to listen to the March 30th 2014 episode that discussed about ISS collaboration in the current US-Russia geopolitics context, as well as robotic vs. human space... More

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