Author: James R. Forbes

Anton de Ruiter, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Obtained his Ph D in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2005.? Until 2006 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Space Technologies Branch of the Canadian Space Agency.?His interests include Nano-Satellite Technologies, Interplanetary Missions, Spacecraft Formation Flying, Spacecraft Attitude and Orbit Determination and Control, GPS-based Spacecraft Navigation, Control Systems, and Optimization Theory and Applications.?Professor De Ruiter has written extensively on spacecraft dynamics and related topics for journals, articled papers and conference proceedings. Christopher J. Damaren, Professor, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies. Obtained his doctorate at UTIAS in 1990 in the area of control systems for flexible spacecraft. In the 1990″s most of his research concentrated on control system design for large structurally flexible robot manipulator systems such as the Space Station robotic systems developed by Canada. Since joining the faculty of UTIAS in 1999, his research group has been involved in the dynamics and control of spacecraft including the orbital, attitude, and structural motions of these systems. James R. Forbes, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mc Gill University. Obtained his doctorate at UTIAS in 2011 in the area of control system design with applications to aerospace systems, including spacecraft attitude control. His teaching duties at Mc Gill University include spacecraft dynamics and control courses at the upper undergraduate/beginning graduate level