Dr. Shyam
Bhaskaran
NRI who guided Deep Impact to its success
Dr. Shyam Bhaskaran has been with the Navigation
and Mission Design Section at JPL for 11 years.
He started his career as an orbit determination
specialist on the Galileo mission. Since then,
he has served as a member of the navigation
team for several missions, including Deep Space
1, and Mars Odyssey, and as the navigation lead
for the European Mars Express and JPL's MRO
missions. He is the one of the principal architects
of the autonomous navigation system used on
Deep Space 1, and is currently a navigator and
member of the imaging science team for the STARDUST
mission. He is presently also the Mission Management
Office Team Chief for Guidance, Navigation and
Control.
Dr. Bhaskaran received a B.S. and M.S. from
the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D
from the University of Colorado in 1991
