Andrew Koehler Email & Phone Number

Colorado, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

-Pathways intern on the Flight Dynamics Team in the Spaceflight Division (Code RS) -Currently working on orbital trajectory designs for Medium-class Explorers (MIDEX) Phase A concept studies

Urbana, IL

Graduate Teaching Assistant for AE 402 Orbital Mechanics (Fall 2019) and AE 202 Aerospace Flight Mechanics (Spring 2020)

Boulder, CO

-Developed a high-fidelity simulation and stationkeeping algorithm for the proposed lunar Gateway which kept the spacecraft ina near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) about the Earth-Moon L2 point, including a crewed configuration for the Artemis program-Optimized low-energy ballistic lunar transfers from low Earth orbit to near rectilinear halo orbits near.

Urbana, IL

Graduate Teaching Assistant for AE 434 Rocket Propulsion, a senior/graduate level technical elective in the Department of Aerospace Engineering.

Urbana, IL

Collaborated with a team of undergraduate and graduate researchers on an analysis of the optimal placement of ground stations using a genetic algorithm for various satellite constellations.

Greenbelt, MD

-Completed training program for FDF Navigation Operations team and shadowed engineers in the Mission Operations Room-Developed simulation for TDRS tracking data that conducted an extended Kalman filter orbit determination analysis-Researched operational real-time capabilities for analysts to assist in detecting anomalies for over 30 NASA missions

Greenbelt, MD

-Worked in the Flight Dynamics Facility (FDF) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center providing mission support as a part of the Navigation Operations team-Created a real-time Observed Minus Computed (O-C) tool that calculates and plots O-C residuals for a given spacecraft using Python and GMAT-Designed a graphical user interface (GUI) using the Python package.

Greenbelt, MD

-Worked in the Navigation and Mission Design branch contributing to the NOAA/NASA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series (GOES-R) mission-Developed a strategy for determining orbital maneuvers that circularized the orbit by raising perigee and decreased the inclination by performing plane change burns-Implemented this strategy in an.

Master Of Science - Ms, Aerospace Engineering

Concentration: Astrodynamics, Research Advisor: Prof. Bruce A. Conway

Bachelor’S Degree, Aerospace Engineering

Activities and Societies: Illinois Space Society (ISS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), The Satellite.