Spacedrones is a Virginia Tech collaborative laboratory that enables multidisciplinary research for small satellites and autonomous space applications. We leverage cutting edge technology to provide a combined hardware and software testbed facility and spacecraft simulator to be used by investigators across engineering disciplines including electrical, aerospace, ocean, mechanical, and others.

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Jonathan Black, Ph.D.

Spacedrones director, Jonathan Black is also a professor for the Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech, director of the Aerospace and Ocean Laboratory for the Hume Center and co-director at the Center for Space Science and Engineering Research