COST:
$3,600.00
DURATION: Four days, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily (continental breakfast & lunch provided)
RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES: STK Fundamentals training, basic knowledge of orbital mechanics concepts. This is a fast-paced class intended for qualified aerospace, defense, or intelligence professionals and educators.
FORMAT: Hands-on
This course is managed and instructed by Applied Defense Solutions, Inc. (ADS) and Space Exploration Engineering Corporation. (SEE).
The instructors have more than 15 years of experience in the areas of STK/Astrogator development, testing, and instruction.
Mike Loucks, the lead instructor, is president and founder of SEE. Mike is accomplished in space mission analysis and orbital mechanics, with special emphasis on
deep space trajectory planning and mission operations. Prior to SEE, Mike worked at Orbital Sciences in Boulder where he was the mission operations manager for
the Orbcomm Precursor OXP-1 and OXP-2 spacecraft. He was the trajectory lead for Orbital Science's Orbview II spacecraft, and was responsible for the orbit
raising plan and operations that placed the spacecraft into its final Sun-synchronous orbit in 1997. In 2000, Mike was the trajectory lead for the Blastoff!
Corporation, a commercial lunar lander mission. He has also served as a trajectory consultant for Goddard Space Flight Center on the WMAP and TRIANA missions to
Earth-Sun libration points. He regularly provides training and consulting on STK/Astrogator, for which he is also the main software tester. Mike received a B.A.
in physics-astronomy from Whitman College in 1985, and an M.S. inaerospace engineering sciences from the University of Colorado in 1991.
John Carrico, senior astrodynamics specialist for ADS in Fulton, MD, is also an instructor for this training. While at AGI, he was the lead developer for the
STK/Astrogator module, and before that, worked as a contractor to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as the lead for the Swingby software program, the
predecessor to STK/Astrogator. John has 19 years of flight dynamics experience including rendezvous, low-Earth, geostationary, lunar, Lissajous,
asteroid missions, and military space. John has supported several missions including the Clementine lunar mission, GOES, GRO, ROCSAT, WMAP, and
some military spacecraft. John has also designed and written trajectory design algorithms and software used for analysis and operations of spacecraft
ranging from LEO to interplanetary missions. John received the NASA Space Act Award; the CSC Corporate Technical Excellence Award; the CSC’s President’s
Excellence Award; and the System Engineering and Analysis Support Quality Service Award. He has also been awarded several patents.
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