The Draper Technology Digest - Draper Laboratory

Small Space Authors’ BiographiesNicholas Borer is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Draper Laboratory in the SpaceSystems group. Since joining Draper in 2006, he has worked with NASA, DARPA, and industrycustomers on system architecture, reliability, and performance-related studies for applications spanninglaunch vehicles, landers, and aircraft. Prior to joining Draper, he was a Graduate Student ResearchersProgram Fellow with the NASA Langley Research Center Aerospace Systems Analysis Branch whilecompleting his studies at Georgia Tech. He is an active pilot in single-engine land and seaplanes,and recently earned his flight instructor certificate. Dr. Borer holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering fromSyracuse University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech.Tye M. Brady is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff and Space Systems Engineering GroupLeader at Draper Laboratory. He has primarily focused on spacecraft instrumentation, design, andintegration on various space programs. He led the development of a novel, fully successful, on-orbitattitude sensor that marked the first successful operation of a MEMS gyro and APS star camera in space.He is currently Technical Director for planetary landing, developing a next-generation highly preciseglobal landing system. He received NASA’s Exceptional Public Service Medal (2009), and was appointedto the National Academies technology steering committee for Entry, Descent, and Landing (2011). Mr.Brady holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University and an S.M. in Aeronautics andAstronautics from MIT.Philip D. Hattis holds the position of Laboratory Technical Staff (Draper’s highest staff designation). Heorganized the 2010 Challenges and Solutions for Operational Global Climate Monitoring Conference heldat Draper Laboratory. He is a Fellow and former Vice President of Public Policy at the American Institute ofAeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and is a current member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.Dr. Hattis holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University, an M.S. in Aeronauticsfrom the California Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT.Timothy C. Henderson is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Draper Laboratory. He has over35 years experience leading projects in structural dynamics, GN&C flight software, fault-tolerant systems,robotics, and precision pointing and tracking. He served as Technical Director for the ExoplanetSat,Joint Astrophysics Nascent Universe Explorer (JANUS), and Commercial Orbital Transportation System(COTS) Fault-Tolerant Flight Computer projects. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineeringfrom Tufts and MIT, respectively.Matthew W. Knutson is a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He is currently a Project Officer workingacquisitions at the Space and Missile Systems Center for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency series ofcommunication satellites. He previously studied as a Draper Laboratory Fellow (2010-2012). His researchincluded developing a fast star tracker centroid algorithm and a high-fidelity optical imager model forExoplanetSat. He also performed air-bearing validation and Matlab autocode analysis. Knutson receiveda B.S. in Astronautical Engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy and an S.M. in Aeronautics andAstronautics from MIT.Sungyung Lim is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Strategic and Space Guidance andControl Group at Draper Laboratory. He was the Principal Investigator for the arcsec line-of-sightpointing control system development for a three-unit cube Exoplanetsat, assembling telescope,piezostage actuator, CMOS detector, avionics, and ADCS algorithms. He is an established leader in thedesign and analysis of G&C systems of very small satellites (cubesats) and large flexible communicationand scientific satellites; high-precision optical, and RF line-of-sight pointing systems, tactical missiles,guided parachute, and manned and robotic spacecraft. He has published more than 28 peer-reviewedpapers, holds one patent, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Small Satellites. He holds a Ph.D.in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University.62 Alphabetical List of Small Space Authors