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Exciting group updates! A huge welcome to Deniz Dost, who joined us as a PhD student to work on the Canadian Space Agency-funded project. We also celebrate our 3 VSRs, who have completed their research and safely returned home.

Members of our research group recently attended and gave a talk at the 2026 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.

Pictured from left to right: M.U. Turker (VSR), D. Cilden-Guler, and E. Sahin (VSR).

IAC 2026 – We will be participating in the 77th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) with five research papers. Congratulations to all the students involved!

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Spring and Summer 2026 – We will welcome new members and visitors in our lab. Congratulations to Elif Sahin and Fatma Balik who won Mitacs Globalink Research Award, and Sadeeb Dewan who won the PURE award.

Our paper "Nanosatellite Attitude Estimation, In-Orbit Sensor Calibration and Fault Detection Using Kinematic Relations Only" is published in Advances in Space Research.

March 2026 – Our paper on "Adaptive filtering-based relative navigation for formation-flying satellites" is published in Control Engineering Practice journal.

January 2026 – Call for applications: A fully funded PhD position for the autonomous cislunar operations project is now open for screening.

July 2025 – Dr. Demet Cilden-Guler joined Schulich School of Engineering and established the Spacecraft Attitude Control and Estimation (SPACE) Lab.