Naderi, Shadi - 505-573-6481

The motivation for this project stems from the crucial need for advanced space surveillance to monitor and track objects in space, ensuring the safety and sustainability of space activities. Traditional surveillance techniques are proving insufficient, and this project seeks to develop methods to seamlessly integrate new technology into telescopes, significantly enhancing space surveillance capabilities.

Biria, Ashley - (206) 228-8420

The Air Force Maui Optical & Supercomputing Site (AMOS), operated by the 15th Space Surveillance Squadron and the AFRL Space Electro-Optics division, is home to the DoD's largest-aperture telescope, the 3.6m Advanced Electro Optical System (AEOS). It also operates a 1.6m telescope, a binocular 1.2m telescope, and several other small-aperture telescopes in pristine viewing conditions atop the summit of Haleakala. As the U.S. Space Force's premier electro-optical laboratory for deep space surveillance, AFRL is seeking a subject matter expert in astrodynamics and orbit estimation to advance efforts to modernize the space surveillance enterprise. Projects include developing techniques to maintain custody of cislunar objects through challenging viewing conditions and dynamic gravipotential environments, maturing algorithms to process heavy loads of uncorrelated tracks from synoptic search imagery, and exploiting multiple phenomenologies to improve satellite custody and characterization.