Zac Manchester

@zacinaction

Assistant Professor of Robotics at CMU, Engineer, Spacecraft Hacker.

Pittsburgh
roboticexplorationlab.org
Joined June 2009
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    Jan 28

    NASA placed 3 satellites into low orbit to see if they can work together & autonomously: “This idea of having satellites maybe dozens, or hundreds or even thousands communicating w/ each other,"says of today at 9am on &

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    Jan 24

    Heard from my children this morning on their first pass overhead! WAHOO! 🎉 Open source satellites running flight software. How cool is that??? Stay tuned. More to come. P.S. they names are Cera, Petrie, and Littlefoot 😜

    CircuitPython powered V-R3x CubeSats
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    Jan 24

    We're alive! First packets received by and in California.

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    Jan 23

    Launch was scrubbed due to weather ☹️. Now tomorrow at 10:00 AM EST.

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    Jan 23

    One hour until launch! Watch it here:

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    Jan 22

    NASA Mission To Test Technology for Satellite Swarms – Carnegie Mellon’s Zac Manchester Leads Three-Satellite Experiment

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  7. Jan 22

    Our satellites built by the awesome are launching tomorrow! Keep an eye on for updates.

    Meet V-R3x, our new mission launching to space! The three spacecraft, each about the size of a coffee mug, will demonstrate new technologies and techniques for navigation and radio networking in Earth orbit. Learn more:
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    4 Oct 2020

    How much smaller and cheaper could satellites become? The article collection 'Nanosatellites for Astronomy and Space Exploration' will try to find the answer! Learn more & submit your research:

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  9. 3 Sep 2020

    I'm super excited to share that I joined this week as an Assistant Professor. It's great to be joining such an awesome group of colleagues and students!

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    11 Jun 2020

    Using neural networks to model dynamics? Consider Structured Mechanical Models, which use Lagrangian Dynamics to dramatically improve data efficiency and reliability for optimal control. Check out our poster & paper at L4DC! Disc. :

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  11. 9 Jun 2020

    I will tomorrow.

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    21 May 2020

    Excited to share that our ALGAMES paper got accepted to RSS 2020! ALGAMES solves autonomous driving problems and generates trajectories featuring collision-free maneuvers like nudging, overtaking and lane changing. Joint w/ and Mac Schwager

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    10 Feb 2020

    Successful fit check of the Stanford University 1p Pycubed launching on Alba cluster 3.

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    17 Jan 2020

    Hear more about the computing architecture powering PyCubed- an open source hardware + software 🛰 platform that's taking the small satellite community by storm! come say hi to and I this Tuesday at :

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    26 Dec 2019

    #3 on our list: From lab testing to launch. developed by and deployed a swarm of tiny ChipSats - the world's smallest spacecraft. The success of this mission has the potential to drastically reduce the cost of launching a satellite.

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    21 Oct 2019

    Voilà! Finally a place to actively chat about , , and small satellites in general! Thank you ! 🛰❤ Come join the discord: @myfirstsatellit

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  17. 26 Sep 2019

    Awesome work by who is TAing our class where we're building a tiny python-powered satellite!

    Max Holiday – CircuitPython in space, SmallSats and more!
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    21 Sep 2019

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  19. 14 Aug 2019

    My student Andrew is about to present his work on Magnetorquer-only attitude control for small sats Astrodynamics Conference. This let's us do full 3-axis pointing on really tiny satellites without large/heavy/expensive reaction wheels.

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    11 Aug 2019

    Thank you community for the tremendous support! My talk on PyCubed, our open-source, radiation tolerant cubesat 🛰 platform running on 's is a hit! Learn more at

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