Alejandro Lopez Ortega

Alejandro López Ortega, after finishing his studies in Aeronautical Engineering at the Higher Technical School of Engineers of Seville , completed a Master's Degree in Aerospace Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (2008-2009) to later complete his doctoral studies at the same institution (2009). -2013). In June 2013, he joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Electric Propulsion group.

The group's mission is to develop and test new ion propulsion technologies that make possible missions such as Dawn (the first space probe to orbit two asteroids) or Psyche (a new mission to study the asteroid of the same name, one of the oldest Of the solar system). They are also working on developing high-power systems (more than 100 kW) that would allow the use of electric propulsion in manned missions in the near future. The Higher Technical School of Engineers provided me with great technical training, to the point of feeling completely prepared to undertake a master's degree at one of the most prestigious technical/scientific universities in the world. My time at school also allowed me to enter the professional world and live very enriching experiences such as my Erasmus stay at the Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space in Toulouse

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