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Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Controls Engineer
Space Systems / Loral
(6/00 to present)
Controls analysis lead
EchoStar 8
EchoStar 9
EchoStar 11
Intelsat 14
NSS-12
Mission operations controls lead (Controls 1)
EchoStar 9
Telstar 18
XTAR
DirecTV 9
EchoStar 11
Performed analysis of
Attitude control using thrusters/wheels
Linear and nonlinear control systems
Angular momentum management and yaw estinmation and control
Linear Quadratic Gausiian (LQG) Systems
Thruster Alignment
ACS propellant budgeting
Acquisition modes
Devleoped controls analysis tool
Gave presentations at design reviews
Contributed to anomaly resolution
Wrote documentation for spacecraft operations
Provided customer support for spacecraft operations
Provided on-site customer training
Signed off on specifications and other requirements docuements
Developed sequence of events (SOE) for mission operations
Supported in-orbit test (IOT)
Performed community outreach to elementary and secondary schools
Dynamicist
Hughes Space and Communications Company
(6/95 to 8/97; 2/99 to 5/00)
Performed analysis of
Spinning spacecraft dynamics
Attitude control using thrusters/wheels/magnetic coils
Appendage deployment
Spacecraft separation
Performed operations in mission control center for HS601 spacecraft
Performed flight software qualification testing
Interviewed prospective engineers
EDUCATION
MSE, Aerospace Engineering
University of Texas at Austin, December 1998
Specialization: Guidance and Controls
Master's Report Title: Chaos in Rigid Body Attitude Dynamics
Advisor: Dr. Robert Bishop
Course work:
Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics (at USC)
Flight Control Systems
Linear Systems Analysis
Optimal Control Theory
Probability, Statistics, and Random Processes
Structural Dynamics
Orbital Dynamics
Statistical Esrimation Theory
LQE/LQR
Mission Analysis and Design
Digital Control Sysyems
Nonlinear Control Systems
BA, Physics & Astrophysics
UC Berkeley, May 1995
Research in radio astronomy
PATENT
US 6,634,603; "Magnetic Dipole Tractor Beam"; October 21, 2003.
PUBLICATION
Cooper, J., and Bishop, R., "Chaos in Rigid Body Attitude Dynamics," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Portland, OR, Paper AIAA-99-3970, August, 1999
TECHNICAL
MATLAB, Simulink, csh (UNIX shell programming), C, FORTRAN, Mathematica, Matrix-X, ADSIM, LaTeX, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FoxPro, Visio, HTML, German.
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