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USC Astronautics Alumni, Students, Faculty,

and Program Friends


The network of the alumni, students, faculty, and program friends and supporters of USC Astronautics, a rapidly growing nationally-prominent program offering degrees in astronautical engineering. Hundreds of our alumni work in the leading American space companies and government research and development centers.

The true story ... Now it can be told

We welcome not only our current and former students with the degrees in Astronautical Engineering (or the preceding degree in Aerospace Engineering, with specialization in Astronautics), but also all current and former USC students who took our space classes and are part of the great space enterprise.

USC Astronautics began as a space engineering specialization in the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California. Today, it is an independent space-focused Department of Astronautical Engineering in the Viterbi School.

In February 2025, the department celebrated its 20-th anniversary.

Astronautics program history, focus, structure, and dynamics

The Astronautics Department awarded more than 1000 degrees Master of Science in Astronautical Engineering in 2004-2024.

More than 2500 students took the flagship Astronautics graduate course ASTE-520 (old AE-501 and AME-501) Spacecraft Systems Design from 1994-2025.

The USC-Astronautics LinkedIn group also welcomes our program friends and supporters from the space and defense industries, national laboratories and FFRDCs, military services, government centers, academia, and space advocates who are interested in and support our program.

Periodically, our group members post job openings -- many will certainly find them useful.


Connect with your fellow Astro-Trojans.  Ad Astra!


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160+ problems with detailed solutions

Fundamentals of Space Missions

Magnitudes of stars and satellites. The solar system. Coordinate systems and time. Plane and solid angles. Space environment and spacecraft interactions. Satellite atmospheric drag. Solar radiation pressure. Gravitational field. The Earth. Basics of orbital mechanics. Orbital elements, transfers, and maneuvers. Orbit evolution and common orbits. Space mission geometry.

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USC Astronautics T-shirt

In order to get the USC-Astronautics rocket-scientist T-shirt, join the group and follow the instructions.

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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (left) at the 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Orlando, Fla., with the USC-Astronautics rocket-scientist T-shirt; Mike Gruntman is on the right; VSOE GAPP's Billy Schwerin is behind the desk in the center. January 5, 2011.


Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin (center) and the instructor of ASTE's Space Architecting Studio Madhu Thangavelu (right) with the USC-Astronautics rocket scientist T-shirt; ASTE graduate student Sam Barbour is next to Aldrin and Mike Gruntman is on the left. December 13, 2012.




The USC Astronautics LinkedIn group launched on 11 April 2009.


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To join the group

If you are new to LinkedIn ... First, join LinkedIn. Then, search LinkedIn groups for "USC Astronautics" and request to join our group.



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