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Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba

Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba is a Ph.D. candidate in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on interplanetary logistics and guidance, navigation, and control methods for spacecraft that need to rendezvous with and capture satellites that are tumbling, noncooperative, or were never designed to be serviced.

Here’s Why It’s So Hard to Boost a Satellite

NASA’s Swift telescope has burned up, months after a robot sent to save it failed

November 11, 2026