For the past few years, students in Professor Sergio Pellegrino's Aerospace Engineering course (Ae105), have helped design, prototype, and test various pieces of AAReST, a space-telescope demonstration mission currently under development. "It's really different from all of our other classes," says Aerospace graduate student Manan Arya. "You're actually doing work that's going to go into space. It's really exciting." [Caltech Feature]
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Trity Pourbahrami



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Professor Sergio Pellegrino, SSPI co-principal investigator
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The AAReST spacecraft as envisioned by the 2011 Ae105 class.[Credit: Ae105 class/Keith Patterson]
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