Earlier this month, Pitt faculty and students participated in the Keystone Space Collaborative Conference, held in Pittsburgh, which has long been a home for important space missions, technology development and manufacturing, and space innovation.
Highlights included a creative panel discussion on technology translation, which asked government, academia and local industry partners what each would bring to a “Keystone Soup,” to establish a space ecosystem in our region. NASA, Touchstone Research Law, and three universities all offered necessary ingredients.
Doctoral students at Pitt-led Center for Space, High-Performance, and Resilient Computing (SHREC) shared updates on various space research projects and missions underway. SHREC is a national consortium comprised of more than 30 industry, government and university groups working together on space research in computer and electrical engineering.