Benjamin Collins Email & Phone Number

Santa Maria, Ca, Us

Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, United States

Tested Link-16 satellites for the United States Air Force. My role includes setting up and supporting live tests with contract companies to verify functionality of in orbit Link-16 capabilities. Using Systems Tool Kit (STK) I have been collecting satellite ephemeris and using the data to calculate angles at which an antenna must point to provide an optimal connection to various ground stations. Using these angles, I am able to program a gimbal on a motion table to follow each satellite throughout its overhead pass. On top of this, I am using channel simulators in order to emulate a seamless transition from one satellite to the next so that we can experience an uninterrupted communications network once more satellites are added to the tranche in future launches.

Houston, Texas, United States

Interned in Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center. My role comprised of the initial training for a flight controller as well as software testing for the Command and Data Handling team for Orion. After testing was complete, I drafted and signed off on certification papers for the software which ended up being used in the successful Artemis-1 Mission