Dr. Yue Yu, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Autonomy, received the 2023 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Best paper award as a co-author. In their paper, Dr. Yu and his co-authors developed a real-time trajectory optimization solver for NASA’s Safe and Precise Landing—Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) project. In NASA's recent FY23 SPLICE Annual Review Presentation for Space Technology Mission Directorate-Game Changing Development Program, this paper was cited as a key development in guidance software. NASA is planning to use this solver on Xogdor, the sixth vehicle in Masten's line of VTVL rockets, in 2025. For more details, please read more about the paper here (https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2023-2003) and NASA's report here (https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20230011737).
