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Welcome
The Structures, Propulsion, And Control Engineering (SPACE) University Research Center (URC) was established in 2003 at the
California State University, Los Angeles
, a Hispanic Serving Institution, with NASA funding of $6 million. The Center recently received a NASA award of $5 million
to continue research for the next five years. The URC is composed of two laboratories: the Structures Pointing and Control
Engineering (SPACE) laboratory and the Multidisciplinary Flight Dynamics and Control (MFDC) laboratory.
The SPACE University Research Center (URC) works in partnership with
Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)
as the lead NASA center, and
JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
as the secondary NASA center. In addition, the URC has a close collaboration with
Boeing Company
and
Northrop Grumman Corporation
. The major areas of research in the URC are directly related to the missions of the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
(Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and Combustion) and Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (
James Webb Space Telescope
), addressing and supporting some of these missions’ key challenges.
To address the technology challenges of both Directorates, the SPACE center conducts research and
development in the following Research Areas:
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Intelligent Flight Control, Autonomous Control, Formation Flying
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Uninhabited Air Vehicles (UAV) Development
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Experimental Studies in Aerodynamics and Propulsion Systems
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Optimization of Combustion and Propulsion Systems
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Bio-derived Liquid Fuel and Solid Propellant Development
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Space Telescope Technology, Precision Pointing, System
Identification
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Decentralized Control, Failure Analysis and
Reconfigurable Control
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Ubiquitous Computing and Embedded Architectures
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Development of Data and Technology Security Systems
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Structural Health Monitoring
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Robotics
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Structural Modeling, Aeroelasticity, and Vibration Analysis
The URC shares NASA's
commitment to increasing the number of minority students who will
pursue and earn advanced degrees and become the influential
scientists and engineers of tomorrow.
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