Daniele Mortari

Daniele Mortari (born 30 June 1955) is Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University and Chief Scientist for Space for Texas A&M ASTRO Center. Mortari is known for inventing the [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03546424 Flower Constellations], the [https://mortari.tamu.edu/k-vector/ k-vector range searching technique], and the Theory of functional connections.

Mortari was elected Member of the International Academy of Astronautics in 2021 [https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2021/01/mortari-joins-the-international-academy-of-astronautics.html]. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 [https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2016/01/mortari-named-ieee-fellow.html] for contributions to navigational aspects of space systems", Fellow of the American Astronautical Society in 2012 [https://astronautical.org/fellows/] "for outstanding contributions to astronautics", Fellow of [https://www.aaia-ai.org/fellows?page=18 Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association] in 2021, recipient of 2015 AAS Dirk Brower Award [https://astronautical.org/awards/brouwer/] "for seminal contributions to the theory and practice of spacecraft orbital and rotational dynamics, particularly attitude determination and satellite constellation design", and of the 2007 IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award "for innovative designs of orbiting spacecraft constellations, and efficient algorithms for star identification and spacecraft attitude estimation". His other notable awards include: the 2015 Herbert H. Richardson Fellow Award, the 2015 William Keeler Memorial Award, and the Best Paper Award, Mechanics Meeting Conference, Honorary Member of [https://ieee-aess.org/contact/daniele-mortari IEEE-AESS Space System Technical Panel], 3 NASA Group Achievement Award (1989, 2008, 2019), AIAA Associate Fellow (2007), and IEEE-AESS [https://ieee-aess.org/contact/daniele-mortari Distinguished Speaker ]. Provided by Wikipedia