In a joint Blue Origin/Stanford capstone project, sponsored by Blue Origin, I worked with a small team to develop CubeSat mission aimed at identifying, targeting, attaching to, and deorbiting an inactive, uncooperative satellite in Amazon's Kuiper Constellation.

 

As the Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Systems Lead, I designed, implemented, and maintained a comprehensive MATLAB/Simulink 6 DoF CubeSat simulation that encompassed launch, rendezvous, and full-scale attitude determination and control subsystem (ADCS) modeling. This simulation was utilized to verify ADCS performance requirements and included features such as quaternion and Euler angle attitude representation, disturbance torque modeling, eclipse modeling, actuator modeling, sensor models, attitude determination algorithms, state-of-the-art estimation algorithms, as well as state space and classical control laws.  A 3D animation was created to visualize slew maneuvers.