Robert Prickett Email & Phone Number

Extensive work experience in communications satellite engineering, with a focus in • Satellite life projection, extension, and optimization• Propellant measurement / repressurization / propellant transfer• Mixture ratio adjust, thruster set selection, maneuver planning• Extensive Background in Satellite Propulsion design, analysis, and anomaly resolution• Monpropellant, Bipropellant, Electric Propulsion / 3-Axis and Spinning Satellites• Propellant Measurement via – ..........Book-keeping, Pressure/Volume/Temperature, Thermal Gauging, ..........Inertia measurement, maneuver performance, ..........Repressurization, propellant transfer / banking, Xenon• Proposal and Design Reviews• Satellite Launch, Daily Operations, and Decommissioning (deorbit)• Specialized Propulsion Issues including:..........Oxidizer-only operations, propellant gauging methods, thruster thermal runaway• Propellant budgets, plume analysis, Propulsion pressure surge (“water hammer”)• Training in Orbital Mechanics and satellite bus subsystems

Listed skills include Spacecraft Design, Propulsion Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Satellite Life Extension, and 11 others.

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  Penn State University

  Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering