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Keynote Address
Dr. Christopher Scolese | Director, NRO
Dr. Christopher Scolese was appointed the 19th Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (DNRO) on August 1, 2019. The DNRO provides direction, guidance, and supervision over all matters pertaining to the NRO and executes other authorities specifically delegated by the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence.
2020 Student Competition Winners
Rachel Morgan; MIT - $10,000
Advisor - Kerri Cahoy
Kyle Craft, Grant Hecht; Missouri University of Science - $3,750
each
Advisor - Henry Pernicka
Philip Hampton; University of Toronto - $5,000
Advisor - Robert Zee
Madeleine Schroeder, Christopher Womack, Amelia Gagnon; MIT -
$850 each
Advisor - Kerri Cahoy
Michael Wilson; University of Michigan - $2,500
Advisor - James Cutler
Niklas Wendel, Tilman Hoffbauer, Louisa Gerhard; University of Applied Sciences Aachen - $850 each
2020 Student Poster Awards
1st Place
Pure Ionic Electrospray Thruster Control Electronics Architecture
and Performance
Jeffrey Asher, Robert Antypas, Joseph Wang - University of Southern
California - Space Engineering Research Center
2nd Place
A TLE-based Algorithm for Correcting Empirical Model Densities
During Geomagnetic Storms
Daniel Brandt, Charles Bussy-Virat, Aaron Ridley - University of
Michigan
3rd Place
Cislunar Explorers: Lessons Learned from the Development of an
Interplanetary CubeSat
Aaron Zucherman, Aaron Buchwald, George Orellana, Sydney Rzepka,
Elliot Kann, Kelly Jawork, Michael Zakoworotny, Charlie Robinson -
Cornell University
Gil Moore - Lifetime Achievement Award
SmallSat Retrospective
Mission of the Year Award
The Mission of the Year award went to
Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (HARP)
Earth and Space Institute at UMBC and Space Dynamics Lab at Utah
State University
The People’s Choice award went to
Quetzal 1
Universidad del Valle de
Guatemala (UVG)
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