Giusy Falcone to Give an Invited Talk at the IROS 2026 Space Robotics Workshop
September 27, 2026
Giusy Falcone will present the invited talk From Constellation Coordination to Mission-Scale Digital Twins at Space Exploration and Sustained Operations Beyond Earth, the Space Robotics Workshop at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh.
The workshop brings together the space and terrestrial robotics communities to advance autonomy, robotic systems, and sustained operations beyond Earth.
Workshop details →New Journal Paper on On-Orbit Servicer Propulsion
July 27, 2026
Our paper, Stochastic Mission-Sampling for Comparing On-Orbit Servicer Propulsion Architectures Under Uncertainty, is now published online in the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets.
The paper introduces a stochastic mission-sampling framework for comparing chemical, electric, hybrid, and multimode propulsion architectures under uncertain on-orbit servicing demand.
Read the paper →
Evan Yu Wins Second Place in the IPPW Student Poster Competition
June 2026
Congratulations to Evan Yu, who earned second place in the Outstanding Student Poster Presentation competition at IPPW 2026.
We are proud to see Evan’s work recognized by the international planetary-probe community.
Space-FALCON Students Win the IPPW Short Course Challenge
June 2026
Nihal Simha, Mohammed Fadag, Evan Yu, and their teammate won the Outstanding Short Course Project Challenge at IPPW 2026.
Congratulations to the team on an excellent collaborative result!
Goddard Legacy Panel at Michigan Aerospace
March 2026
Space-FALCON Lab was proud to be part of Michigan Aerospace’s celebration of the 100th anniversary of Dr. Robert Goddard’s first liquid-fueled rocket launch.
Giusy Falcone organized and moderated the Goddard Legacy panel, bringing together speakers from NASA, SpaceX, and the University of Michigan for a thoughtful conversation on history, community, and the future of space exploration.
Event details →
Workshop on Intelligent Space Robotics and Systems at ICRA 2026
ICRA 2026
Space-FALCON Lab is excited to be part of the full-day Workshop on Intelligent Space Robotics and Systems at ICRA 2026 in Vienna.
Giusy Falcone will speak at the workshop, which brings together researchers and industry leaders to discuss the next generation of autonomous space systems. We are grateful to the organizers for the invitation and look forward to the conversations ahead.
Workshop website →Michigan Housing Honored Instructor Recognition
2026–2027
Giusy Falcone has been named a Michigan Housing Honored Instructor for the 2026–2027 academic year.
Teaching is a central part of the lab’s work, and this recognition means a great deal to us.
Two Papers at IEEE Aerospace 2026
March 2026
Space-FALCON Lab had an amazing time presenting two papers at the IEEE Aerospace Conference this year.
One paper, Multi-agent Angle-Only Relative Orbit Determination via Distributed Filtering, presented by Giusy Falcone and written by Giovanni Romagnoli, explored cooperative relative orbit determination for distributed satellite systems using angle-only measurements and distributed filtering.
The second paper, Verification of SpaceAGORA.jl 6-DOF Dynamics Using University of Michigan SmallSats Telemetry, presented by Evan Yu, focused on validating SpaceAGORA.jl against flight telemetry from CYGNSS and GRIFEX.
Giovanni Romagnoli Joined the Lab
February 2026
Giovanni Romagnoli from the University of Pisa joined Space-FALCON Lab to work on extending our distributed relative orbit determination framework to multi-target tracking with collaborative data association.
We are very happy to have him in the lab and excited about this new collaboration.
February Lab Dinner at Biercamp
February 2026
We wished goodbye to Arjun and welcomed Giovanni to the team!
AIAA SciTech Forum 2026
January 2026
Members of our lab attended the AIAA SciTech Forum 2026 this January!