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2014 Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award
Presented to Riccardo Bevilacqua

2014 Ward Award Recipient Riccardo Bevilacqua

The 2014 Ward Award went to Dr. Riccardo Bevilacqua for outstanding contributions in developing novel and alternative guidance and control techniques for multi-spacecraft relative maneuvering using differential drag and trajectory forecasting to enable propellant-free small spacecraft formation flight in Low Earth Orbit. This work will enable the first drag-maneuvered CubeSat to fly in 2016.

Dr. Bevilacqua is an Associate Professor of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, at the University of Florida. He holds a M. Sc. in Aerospace Engineering (2002), and a Ph. D. in Applied Mathematics (2007), both from the University of Rome, "Sapienza", Italy. His research interests focus on spacecraft formation flight and space robotics. Dr. Bevilacqua is also the recipient of two Young Investigator Awards, from AFOSR (2012) and ONR (2013).

2014 Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award Presented to Riccardo Bevilacqua

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2014 Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award
Presented to Riccardo Bevilacqua