Expert Details
the GPS, Communication Satellites, Booster Rockets, and Powered Flight Maneuvers
ID: 730468
California, USA
Expert provided advice on navigation satellites and constellation design for Damlier-Benz in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
He wrote proposals and developed small business concepts for Consultare International in Bethesda, Maryland.He designed, wrote, and edited a video presentation announcing that Boeing Aerospace had become responsible for the next generation of GPS satellites.Developed, wrote, and polished effective advertising copy touting a new family of GPS receivers being marketed by Navstar, Ltd., in Daventry, England.Instructed young South African engineers on the fundamental principles of orbital mechanics and reviewed their emerging Greensat satellite design at Stellenbosch University and at Houwteg Corporation near Cape Town, South Africa.
Education
Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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Year: 2010 | Degree: Post-graduate Studies | Subject: Aerospace engineering, Mathematics, and Writing | Institution: University of California at Los Angeles and University of California at Irvine |
Year: 1962 | Degree: MS | Subject: Mathematics | Institution: University of Kentucky |
Year: 1959 | Degree: BS | Subject: Map-Physics | Institution: Eastern Kentucky University |
Work History
Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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Years: 1994 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Expert witness, author, consultant, and professional platform lecturer | Department: |
Responsibilities:About one week each month, the expert gets the opportunity to visit one of the 10 NASA bases, a university campus, or a military installation where he teaches the next generation of young rocket scientists how to conquer space. Those stimulating visits are interspersed with keynote lectures, expert witness work, and consulting assignments. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1964 to 1994 | Employer: Rockwell International | Title: Senior Member of Technical Staff | Department: Systems Engineering |
Responsibilities:Expert handled mathematical derivations, computer simulations, and systems analysis studies for the Saturn 5 moon rocket, moon rocket, the manned Skylab, Mars and asteroid missions, and the Navstar Global Positioning System. He determined the best sun synchronous orbit for the Canadian radar satellite and reviewed the problems and the promise of the GPS receiver carried on board the Landsat D. earth resources satellite. He studied and evaluated the space debris hazard for the giant 20-square-mile solar power satellite -- and the best maneuvering sequence to move it from its low-altitude assembly orbit to its final destination orbit at geo-sync. He managed a small proposal for the Personal Communicator, an early device similar to today's Iridium handsets. It was designed to relay telephone messages to and from an orbital antenna farm at geo-sync. It was also designed to handle remote teleconferencing, electronic mail, and television and telephone relay operations. He performed a variety of studies for the GPS, including force-multiplier effects on modern battlefields, survivability studies, and autonomy studies intended to minimize the number of military personnel required to keep the constellation in operation. He conducted numerous studies centering on the utility of the GPS to the Federal Aviation Administration. These included an early proposal for geosynchronous overlay satellites of the type now being planned or operated by the United States, Europe, and Japan, among others. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1961 to 1964 | Employer: McDonnell Douglas | Title: Senior engineer | Department: Space division |
Responsibilities:Expert helped code the six-degree-of-freedom preflight and post-flight trajectory simulation programs for the S-4B stage of the Saturn 5 moon rocket. Using advanced mathematics, he worked out various ways to enhance the performance capabilities of the Saturn 5. These included optimal trajectory shaping and optimal fuel biasing to cover for statistical uncertainties in the booster rockets' day-to-day performance variations. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1959 to 1960 | Employer: McDonnell Douglas | Title: Aeroballistics engineer | Department: Space division |
Responsibilities:Expert handled orbital mechanics studies for the Transit navigation satellite constellation consisting of six gravity-gradient stabilized satellites positioned in polar "Birdcage" orbits. He also developed a closed-form mathematical derivation used in evaluating the perturbations induced on various low-altitude satellite orbits by the Earth's equatorial bulge. He set up trajectory simulations and range safety evaluations for the two thor boosters used in launching suborbital ballistic capsules in which an early communication satellite, the Echo Balloon, was tested in space. He evaluated the probability of camera recovery and established the identity of two previously unidentified flying objects that unexpectedly entered the camera's field of view. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1958 to 1958 | Employer: Naval Ordinance Laboratory | Title: Student Trainee | Department: Silver Spring, Maryland |
Responsibilities:Expert performed kill probability studies for the Tartar and Talos shipboard defensive missiles. He evaluated the effectiveness of the "continuous rod" warheads that expanded in "accordion fashion" into a circle of metal intended to cut attacking airplanes in half. |
Government Experience
Years | Agency | Role | Description |
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Years: 1958 to 1958 | Agency: Naval Ordnance Laboratory | Role: Student Trainee | Description: Expert worked as a student trainee in Silver Spring, Maryland, designing and testing "continuous rod" warheads capable of cutting enemy airplanes in half. |
Years: to Present | Agency: | Role: | Description: He worked on several government proposals and contracts, including various DoD studies of the GPS including it's nuclear detection services, and it's UHF cross-links used in relaying nuclear detection measurements from satellite to satellite. |
Years: to Present | Agency: | Role: | Description: He handled orbit selection trade studies for the Canadian Radar Satellite and the DMSP (Defense Meteorological Satellite Program), consisting of two sun synchronous satellites, and kill probability evaluations for the Navy's Tartar and Talos shipboard antiaircraft missiles. |
International Experience
Years | Country / Region | Summary |
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Years: 1978 to 2012 | Country / Region: | Summary: The expert has marketed, consulted, lectured, and taught in more than two dozen countries scattered over six continents. Key locations have included Lima, Peru, Sydney, Australia, Munich, Germany, Montreal, Oxford, England, Auckland, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Abu Dhabi, Mexico City, Barcelona, and Stellenbosch, South Africa. The expert's words, in books and lectures, have been translated into a dozen different languages including Russian, French, Spanish, Iatalian, Serbo-Croatian, international sign language, Portuguese, Hebrew, and Japanese. |
Career Accomplishments
Associations / Societies |
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Expert is a member of the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). |
Awards / Recognition |
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Expert received the only perfect "10" rating from the U.S. Air Force among 44 research projects. The assignment centered around the survivability of the Navstar GPS radio navigation satellites and their support hardware in the face of enemy attacks. He received an award for the best presentation at the Society of Automotive Engineers annual meeting in Long Beach, California. The presentation dealt with the precision timekeeping capabilities of the four atomic clocks carried on board each of the GPS Block 2 satellites. He helped to design an exhibit explaining how atomic clocks keep such amazingly accurate time. For several years it remained on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. He managed a 60-page proposal for a simple space-based Personal Communications System equipped with conventional parabolic and phased-array antennas. Proposed a demonstration of the concept linking the President of the United States with the Mayor of New York. Expert heled compose the words and design the color charts for a 25-page monograph, funded by Mike Griffin, the head of NASA. It dealt with the major technological breakthroughs developed and perfected at the 10 NASA bases scattered across the United States. |
Publications and Patents Summary |
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He wrote and designed the figures for one of the best technical books in 1982, "How to Cope with Computers" (Hayden Book Company) and a Book-of-the-Month-Club selection in 1984, "The Robot Revolution" (Simon and Schuster). He wrote and designed the color graphics for various aerospace-related articles totaling 19,000 words for Encyclopedia Britannica. |