Mar Vaquero has received an award for the Best Student Paper in Mission Design and Optimization at the recent IAA/AAS Conference on the Dynamics and Control of Space Systems, in Porto, Portugal, held on March 19-21, 2012.

Mar is a current Ph.D student in Astrodynamics and Space Applications with Professor Kathleen Howell as her advisor.  

Mar’s paper is entitled “Design of Transfer Trajectories Between Resonant Orbits in the Restricted Three-Body Problem with Application to the Earth-Moon System.”

Congratulations to Mar on this prestigious award.