Position:
Senior Scientist, STAR, Inc.  Develops operation scenarios for service missions with electro-dynamic tethers, and active feedback control systems for tether libration control.

Education:
Ph.D. in Theoretical Mechanics, Thesis: “Dynamics of the Orbital Tether System,” School of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia, 1984

Experience:

• 1999-Present, Senior Scientist, STAR, Inc.
• 1994-1999, Consultant in Dynamics, Applied Mathematics, and Computer Science, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• 1993-1994, Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• 1979-1993, Senior Researcher, Institute for Mechanical Engineering Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• 1974-1979, School of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow University

Recent Work on Tether Dynamics:

• 2005, Dynamics of the Momentum Exchange Electrodynamic Reboost System, Marshall Space Flight Center
• 2005, Lunar Tether Transport, NIAC Study
• 2004, Dynamic Analysis of the Submillimeter Probe of the Evolution of Cosmic Structures, Naval Research Laboratory
• 2001, Electrodynamic Delivery Express: Dynamics and Control, Air Force Research Laboratory
• 2000, Dynamics Analysis of the Mir Electrodynamic Tether System, Tether Applications, Inc.
• 1999, Service Vehicle Missions with Electrodynamic Tether, Air Force Research Laboratory
• 1997, TiPS Dynamics Analysis, Naval Research Laboratory
• 1996, Tether-Mediated Comet Sample Retrieval, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Publications:
The books “ Dynamic Analysis of Space Tether Missions” (AAS, 2007)
and “Dynamics of Space Tether Systems” (AAS, 1993) are the world’s
definitive works on tether dynamics.

• Naval Research Laboratory (1997)
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1996)
• Fourth Conference on Tethers in Space (1995)
• Cornell University (1994)
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (1994)
• Stanford University (1994)
• University of California at Berkeley (1994)
• University of Michigan (1994)
• Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB (1994)
• Honeywell, Inc. (1994)