{"71501":{"#nid":"71501","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Students Honored at AIAA Foundation Space Design Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology students have won two of the\ntop three awards in a recent American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics\n(AIAA) Foundation contest. The School of Aerospace Engineering groups finished\nsecond and third in the 2010-11 Undergraduate Team Space Design Competition. Both\nwere supervised by David Spencer, professor of the practice in Aerospace\nEngineering, and Carlee Bishop, senior research engineer at the Georgia Tech\nResearch Institute. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s competition required students to design\na spacecraft capable of removing large-sized debris from orbit around the Earth\nat an altitude between 540-600 miles, and at an inclination between 82 and 83\ndegrees. Entries also featured a robotic arm capable of placing \u201cdeorbiting\npacks\u201d on individual pieces of debris. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second-place team, \u201cTeam Zodiac,\u201d was comprised of\nstudents Eliot Bignell, Luis Reyes Castro, Azariah Cornish, Eric\nDouglass, Caroline Hilton, Emre Tezcan, and Han Zhang. The third-place team,\u201cTeam\nPACSat,\u201d included students Marco Gomez, Michael Hill, Matt Lee, Garrett\nSisk, Alexandra Stavros, Eric Stuber, and Conner Volpe.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAIAA is the world\u2019s largest technical\nsociety dedicated to the global aerospace profession.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWritten by Georgia Tech Communications \u0026amp; Marketing Student Media Member Ayesha Patel\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Aerospace Engineering student groups finished second and third in the 2010-11 Undergraduate Team Space Design Competition."}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2011-10-17 15:54:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:30","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71186":{"id":"71186","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"}},"media_ids":["71186"],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"14768","name":"Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-385-2966\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jason.maderer@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}