A Stronger than ever Journal on Space Sciences, Technology, Management and Applications

1.Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço, São José dos Campos/SP, Brazil | Ana Cristina Avelar received a Mechanical Engineering degree from the Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI), in 1994. She received the MSc and Doctor degree in Mechanical Engineering in the area of Thermal and Fluids Sciences in 1997 and 2001, respectively, by the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). She started in the Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço (IAE), as a researcher in 2002. She has been actuating in the area of experimental methods in wind tunnel, mainly with the optical techniques of particle image velocimetry (PIV) and pressure sensitive paint (PSP). From September 2010 to September 2011 she carried out and a post-doc stage in the Laboratoire de Mécanique de Lille, Lille, France, working with Tomographic PIV. Today she is also a professor in the post-graduation program in Sciences and Space Technologies, PG-CTE, in the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA). Email: editor@jatm.com.br 2.Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos/SP, Brazil | Antonio F. Bertachini A. Prado has 25 years of experience in research and educational activities in the aerospace field. He obtained five academic degrees: Ph.D. (1993) and Master (1991) in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (USA), Master in Space Science/Orbital Mechanics (1989) from the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) in Brazil, BA in Physics (1986) and Chemical Engineering (1985) from Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. In 1989 he also participated in the summer session of the International Space University, in Strasbourg, France. He is currently President of the Board of the Graduate School at INPE. He also has the following positions: Advisor in the field of Astrodynamics for Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) since 1995, Full Professor of the Universidade Estadual Júlio de Mesquita Filho, and Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Email: antonio.prado@inpe.br A Stronger than ever Journal on Space Sciences, Technology, Management and Applications