Congratulations to Cheng Qi for his paper, “Low-power and Compact Microwave RFID Reader for Sensing Applications in Space”, which has been awarded the best student paper at the IEEE RFID-TA 2018 conference in Macau, SER China. This work documents Cheng’s work on the RFsat mission with Northwest Nazarene University, which is taking a custom-built GTPG microwave backscatter reader and energy-harvesting tag into space as part of a novel science package. His co-authors are Prof. Josh Griffin (GTPG alum) and Prof. Durgin. Well done, Cheng!