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Space Technology Trailblazers: Introspection and Exploration
April 3, 2024 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Dr. Manoranjan Majji, Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, is leading a virtual panel to discuss the upcoming challenges and opportunities for space technology. Please REGISTER to access the event’s Zoom link.
Manoranjan Majji
Majji is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and is the Director of the Land, Air and Space Robotics (LASR) Laboratory at Texas A&M University. He has a diverse background in several aspects of dynamics and control of aerospace vehicles with expertise spanning the whole spectrum of modeling, analysis, computations and experiments. In the areas of state estimation, astrodynamics, tensegrity systems, vision navigation, and system identification, he has made fundamental contributions documented in over 190 publications. He is a senior member of the IEEE, an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a fellow of the American Astronautical Society (AAS).
Srinivas V. Bettadpur
Bettadpur is a Professor and a Fellow of the FSX Professorship in Space Applications and Exploration in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Bettadpur’s core interests are the design and architecture of space missions for this purpose; the analysis of space geodetic data; and the interpretation of the results.Dr. Bettadpur holds an appointment as well in the Department of Geological Sciences in the Jackson School of Geosciences, and is an affiliate of the UT Applied Research Laboratory. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA, and a Fellow of the IAG.
Diane C. Davis
Davis is the Mission Design lead for the Gateway Program at Johnson Space Center. She has a BS in Physics from Texas A&M University, an MS in Astrodynamics from the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD in multibody astrodynamics from Purdue University. Previously, Diane worked in the inner planet navigation group at JPL and for mission control ground system development at JSC. Her research focuses on orbit maintenance and dynamics of departing flow in Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits. Diane is a member of the American Astronautical Society Spaceflight Mechanics Committee and the International Astronautical Federation Astrodynamics Committee, and she is an AIAA Associate Fellow.