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Member Since 2022
Jose Pedro Ferreira
Student, University of Southern California
José Pedro Ferreira is a Fulbright Fellow pursuing a doctoral degree in Astronautical Engineering at University of Southern California under the subject of space sustainability and environmental impact of space debris demise.
He has been trained in concurrent engineering at ESA, and in nanosatellite technology at ISRO. José conducted graduate-level research at Delft University of Technology and at NASA Ames Research Center.
Professional Experience
University of Southern California
Student
2024 - Present
Education
Instituto Superior Técnico
Masters
2017
Honors & Awards
AGU Michael H Freilich Student Visualization Competition
Received December 2022
Publications
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Potential Ozone Depletion From Satellite Demise During Atmospheric Reentry in the Era of Mega‐Conste...
Large constellations of small satellites will significantly increase the number of objects orbiting the Earth. Satellites burn up at the end of ser...
June 11, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Impacts of Satellite Reentry on Atmospheric Composition in the Era of Mega-Constellations: Molecular Dynamics Simulations
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMICAL MECHANISMS: CONNECTING EXPERIMENTS, THEORY, AND MODELING II POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2022
Jose Pedro Ferreira, Ziyu Huang, Ken-ichi Nomura, ...
The number of orbiting satellites has increased significantly and in an unrestricted and unregulated manner in recent years. This trend is expected to...
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