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AE Seminar

What the Painful Example of Stardust Teaches
Us about Nav-ACS System Engineering
 

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Tim McElrath

NASA JPL | Mission Design and Navigation Chief Engineer

Friday, April 14
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Guggenheim 442

About the Seminar:
Stardust was successful, so why call it painful? Because JPL had to completely re-invent Stardust’s Earth return, after launch! Against the backdrop of the new Earth-return plan, explore the unfortunate interaction of navigation and attitude control for Stardust, and from it draw systems engineering lessons for the future.

About the Speaker: 
For the last 38.5 years, Tim McElrath has been working at JPL on navigation and mission design, of which he is currently Chief Engineer. Past projects of his include Ulysses, Galileo, and the Mars Exploration Rovers. For much of the past decade, Tim was in charge of the mission design and navigation development for a proposed Europa Lander mission. Lately, Lunar Flashlight has been keeping him busy.