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Founded in 2018 by Prof. Piyush M. Mehta, the Astrodynamics, Space ScIence, and Space Technology Lab (ASSIST) Laboratory at West Virginia University undertakes groundbreaking research in the primary areas of Space Situational Awareness, Space Traffic Management, and Space Weather. We are also generally interested in solving challenging science and engineering problems in the aerospace domain. Please visit the research page for more information about our research projects.

We are closely affiliated with the Center of Innovation in Space Exploration and Research (CISER) with a focus on space safety and sustainability and with the Center for KINetic Experimental, Theoretical, and Integrated Computational (KINETIC) Plasma Physics. 

We are always looking for graduate students enthusiastic about space exploration but also with interests in other research topic areas in our portfolio. Feel free to reach out to the lab director, Prof. Mehta, for more information. Follow @WVUAssistLab on Twitter