John Shepard
Santa Clara University
5 Papers
30 Citations
John Shepard is an academic researcher from Santa Clara University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Payload & Mission control center. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications.
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Papers
Extended Life Flight Results from the GeneSat-1 Biological Microsatellite Mission
Giovanni Minelli,Christopher Kitts,Karolyn Ronzano,Christopher Beasley,R. Rasay,Igancio Mas,Phelps Williams,Paul Mahacek,John Shepard,Jose Acain,John W. Hines,Elwood Agasid,Charlie Friedericks,Matthew Piccini,Macarena Parra,Linda Timucin,M. Henschke,Ed Luzzi,Nghia Mai,Mike McIntyre,Robert Ricks,David Squires,Chris Storment,John Tucker,Bruce Yost,Greg Defouw,Antonio J. Ricco +26 more
- 01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: The GeneSat-1 technology demonstration mission validated the use of research quality instrumentation for in situ biological research and processing as discussed by the authors, and all primary science and engineering test objectives were completed successfully within one month of operation.
A Multirobot Control Architecture for Collaborative Missions Comprised of Tightly Coupled, Interconnected Tasks
John Shepard,Christopher Kitts +1 more
TL;DR: This article presents a unified motion control architecture for tightly coupled, collaborative systems that are emerging in robotics applications and discusses the construction of the control architecture elements, and presents formal stability analysis spanning all tasks and configurations.
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Responsive Small Satellite Mission Operations Using An Enterprise-Class Internet-Based Command and Control Network
Christopher Kitts,Mike Rasay,Ignacio Mas,Paul Mahacek,Giovanni Minelli,John Shepard,Jose Acain +6 more
- 09 Sep 2008
TL;DR: A distributed satellite ground segment and control network that is developed and operated by students at Santa Clara University in order to support a wide variety of NASA and university-class small spacecraft.
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REBR: An Innovative, Cost-Effective System for Return of Reentry Data
William Ailor,Ian Dupzyk,John Shepard,Mark E. Newfield +3 more
- 18 Sep 2007
TL;DR: The Reentry Breakup Recorder (REBR) as mentioned in this paper is a small, disposable reentry vehicle that collects data on new thermal protection system materials and concepts and on space hardware demise during reentry and return data via a commercially available communication system.
Initial Flight Results from the PharmaSat Biological Microsatellite Mission
Christopher Kitts,Karolyn Ronzano,R. Rasay,Ignacio Mas,Jose Acain,Michael A. Neumann,L. Bica,Paul Mahacek,Giovanni Minelli,Erin Beck,Steve Li,Brian Gamp,Seamus Agnew,John Shepard,John W. Hines,Elwood Agasid,Charlie Friedericks,Matthew Piccini,Macarena Parra,Linda Timucin,C. Beasley,M. Henschke,Ed Luzzi,Nghia Mai,Mike McIntyre,Robert Ricks,Antonio J. Ricco,David Squires,Greg Yost,Defouw,Aaron Schooley,Diana Ly,Millan Diaz-Aguado,Eric Stackpole,Orlando Diaz,Tammy Doukas +35 more
- 01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: The PharmaSat mission, the design of its spacecraft and ground segment, and initial flight results are presented.