Proceedings of the 2022 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference - Volume 1

Atri Dutta is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Wichita State University (WSU), with expertise in the areas of astrodynamics, control systems, mission design and optimization. His research focuses on low-thrust trajectory optimization, mission design for in-space neutrino detection experiments, CubeSat constellation design, and on-orbit servicing. At WSU, he directed the Disaster Resilience and Analytics Center from 2021-25. He is an Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He is a member of American Astronautical Society (AAS) and Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He serves on the Astrodynamics Technical Committee of AIAA. All his degrees are in Aerospace Engineering, with Bachelors (2002) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and M.S. (2005) & Ph.D. (2009) degrees from Georgia Tech.

David B. Spencer is the Vice President for Publications for The American Astronautical Society. In this role, he oversees the publications portfolio for the society. He is Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at Penn State University. He is also a Senior Project Leader at The Aerospace Corporation in Chantilly, Virginia.

Simone D’Amico is Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Geophysics (by Courtesy), Science Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at EraDrive Inc. He is the Founding Director of the Stanford Space Rendezvous Laboratory, Founding Co-Director of the Center for AEroSpace Autonomy Research (CAESAR), and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Aerospace Engineering at Stanford. He has 20+ years of experience in research and development of autonomous spacecraft and distributed space systems. He developed and deployed the distributed Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) system of several formation-flying, swarming, rendezvous and proximity operations missions (e.g. PRISMA, TanDEM-X, and STARLING). Dr. D’Amico is Fellow of AIAA and AAS. He is on the Advisory Board of four space start-ups focusing on distributed space systems. He was the recipient of several Best Paper Awards at AMOS (2025), IAF (2022), IEEE (2021), AIAA (2021), AAS (2019) conferences, and the M. Barry Carlton Award by IEEE (2020). He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Politecnico di Milano (2003) and the Ph.D. degree from Delft University of Technology (2010).

Ossama Abdelkhalik is a professor, and the Vance D. Coffman faculty chair, in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University, in Ames, Iowa. Dr. Abdelkhalik received his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, as well as a B.S. and M.S. degrees in aerospace engineering from Cairo University, Egypt. His research interests are in the areas of orbital mechanics, spacecraft dynamics, optimal control, and space trajectory optimization. He authored and co-authored more than 150 journal and conference articles, a book, and 7 patents. Dr. Abdelkhalik is Associate Fellow of AIAA, a senior member of the American Astronautical Society (AAS), IEEE, and a member of the AIAA Technical Committee on Astrodynamics. Dr. Abdelkhalik is the AIAA General Chair of the 2014 AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, and the 2022 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.