MSSLers receive Best Paper Award, present research at AIAA SciTech 2026
Several pieces of news to report from the AIAA SciTech 2026 Forum in Orlando, FL in January 2026:
1. MSSLers Alexandra Haraszti and Manan Arya received the "Spacecraft Structures Best Paper Award" for their paper presented at SciTech 2025: "Curved-Crease Origami Wrapping of Doubly Curved Shells Using Coupled Dynamic Relaxation", 12th Spacecraft Structures Conference, AIAA SciTech Forum 2025. [link, pdf]
2. Alexandra also presented a new paper: A Haraszti, I Krida, H Nassar, T Chen, and M Arya, Stiffness and Stability of Spiral-Wrapped Doubly Curved Shells, 13th Spacecraft Structures Conference, AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando FL. [link, pdf]
3. Connie Liou presented a paper, as well: C Liou, M Arya, and S Ferraro, Deployable Multilayer Origami-inspired Telescope Shrouds, 13th Spacecraft Structures Conference, AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando FL. [link, pdf]
4. Manan presented a paper on behalf of a joint Stanford/JPL team: SJ Huang, NA Jones, K Pound, MY Zhou, K Murillo, D Hoppe, D Hofmann, R Hodges, and M Arya, Lightweight Deployable Millimeter-Wave MetaLens: Structural Analysis and Precision Fabrication, 13th Spacecraft Structures Conference, AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando FL. [link, pdf]
5. Finally, this represented Manan's final AIAA SciTech Forum as Chair of the Spacecraft Structures Technical Committee. This comes after serving two years as Chair, two years as Vice-Chair, and one year as Secretary of this Technical Committee.
