Daniele Mortari - Home Page

Associate Professor

Department of Aerospace Engineering
Texas A&M University


"Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom in not truth,
truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music. Music is the best."

Frank Zappa, Joe's Garage, 1979


General

Resume [Link]
BibTex file of Mortari's publications [Link]
BibTex file of cited publications [Link]

Active courses

AERO-650 - Spacecraft Attitude Determination
AERO-423 - Space Technology I
AERO-211 - Engineering Mechanics

Students and Collaborators

Here you find all you need (to know) for MS and Ph.D. students. [Link]
Current MS and Ph.D. graduate students [Link]
Past graduate students [Link]
Research scholars, Post-docs, and collaborators [Link]

Active Research

  1. Orbital Mechanics
    1. Flower Constellations
    2. Flower Formation Flying
  2. Attitude Determination Systems
    1. Attitude Estimation
    2. Star Tracker Data Processing
  3. Other topics
    1. k-vector technique
    2. Linear Algebra of Rotations

Pubblications

[1988] - [1989]
[1990] - [1991] - [1992] - [1993] - [1994] - [1995] - [1996] - [1997] - [1998] - [1999]
[2000] - [2001] - [2002] - [2003] - [2004] - [2005] - [2006] - [2007] - [2008] - [2009]
[2010]

Associate Editor

AAS The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences [Link]
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems [Link]
Indawi International Journal of Navigation and Observations [Link]

Other Activities

IEEE Distinguished Lecture and Tutorial Program [Link]
AAS Spaceflight Mechanics Committee [Link]
IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award Committee [Link]

Useful Links

FreeMat. An open source clone of MATLAB [Link]
GMAT (General Mission Analysis Tool). An open source program for mission design (similar to AGI-STK). [Link]
wxMaxima. a cross-platform graphical front-end for the computer algebra system Maxima based on wxWidgets. [Link]
The Matrix Cookbook is a free desktop reference on matrix identities [Link]
SyncToy helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers quickly and easily. [Link]
PDFCreator is an OpenSource program that easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. [Link]


Contact information:
707H.R. Bright Building
Ross Street
- 3141 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-3141
Tel. (979) 845-0734, FAX (979) 845-6051
mortari@aero.tamu.edu

Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.