Press, coverage, and background reading.

A selection of articles, papers, and institutional resources covering the projects, programs, research groups, and facilities I’ve worked with. Where I wasn’t personally named, the pieces document the broader work I contributed to.

The satellite mission, in the news.

WCBD News 2
April 2026

First College of Charleston space-device bound for the International Space Station for launch

Coverage of the College of Charleston’s ultraviolet camera launching to the ISS — the flight hardware lineage of the UV photometry CubeSat program I led engineering on during 2023–2024.

Live 5 News
April 2026

College of Charleston students prepare for International Space Station launch

Local Charleston coverage of the UV photometry program ahead of its ISS payload launch, featuring student researchers continuing the project after my engineering tenure.

College of Charleston
Winter 2025

Student Gael Gonzalez Shoots for the Stars With NASA

The College’s magazine profile of the UV photometry mission, describing the CofC–University of Chile collaboration led by Prof. Joe Carson and Prof. Marcos Díaz, and the project’s framing as “the College’s first space-based mission and South Carolina’s first space-based technology demonstration.”

From the lab’s published record.

arXiv · 2301.04343
2023

Simulations of Precessing Jets and the Formation of X-shaped Radio Galaxies

Nolting, Ball & Nguyen (2023). Published research from the College of Charleston astrophysics group during the period I worked there as an Astrophysical Researcher (2021–2022), modeling jet precession, back-flow dynamics, and the proposed binary-AGN origins of X-shaped radio galaxy morphology.

College of Charleston
Department of Physics & Astronomy

Astrophysics at College of Charleston

The College of Charleston is the only university in South Carolina with an undergraduate degree in astrophysics. This is the program I graduated from and where both of my CofC research roles were based.

The facilities and programs behind the work.

DoD HPC Modernization Program
HPC Centers

ERDC DSRC — DoD Supercomputing Resource Center

Official site for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ DoD Supercomputing Resource Center in Vicksburg, MS — home to the Top 500-class systems (Carpenter, Barfoot, Wheat) supporting the DoD’s research, test, and operational HPC workloads, and the facility I currently work at.

BAE Systems
July 2022

BAE Systems wins $699 million U.S. Army contract to support High Performance Computing Centers

Press release announcing the five-year contract under which I now support the DoD HPC Modernization Program at the ERDC DSRC, alongside teammates at BAE Systems and Prosyntix.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
ERDC

U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

Headquarters site for ERDC, USACE’s premier R&D laboratory complex and the home of the DoD HPC Modernization Program.