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  • Ryan Russell
  • Assistant Professor

Contact Information

  • Phone: 404.385.3342
  • Fax: 404.894.2760
  • Office: Knight 309
  • Email: ryan.russell@aerospace.gatech.edu
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Degrees

  • B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1999.
  • M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2000.
  • Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2004.

Biography

Not asvailable.

Selected Publications

  • Russell, R. P.,  “Primer Vector Theory Applied to Global Low-Thrust Trade Studies,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2007, pp. 460-472.
  • Lara, M., Russell, R.P., Villac, B. “Classification of the Distant Stability Regions at Europa,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2007, pp. 409-418.
  • Russell, R. P., “Global Search for Planar and Three-dimensional Periodic Orbits Near Europa,” Journal of the Astronautical Sciences.  Vol. 54, No. 2, 2006, pp. 199-226.
  • Russell, R. P., Lara, M., “Long-Life Lunar Repeat Ground Track Orbits,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics,  Vol. 30, No. 4, 2007, pp. 982-993.
  • Lara, M., Russell, R.P., Villac, B. “Fast estimation of stable regions in real models,” Meccanica, DOI 10.1007/s11012-007-9060-z

Honors and Distinctions

  • Best Paper Award at the AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting in Tampa, FL, Jan 2005
  • Best Paper Award at the AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Puerto Rico, Feb 2003
  • JPL Meeting and Exceeding Great Achievements (MEGA) Spot Award, Sep 2006
  • NASA Tech Brief Award:  “Parallel, Global, and Pareto Optimization of Low-Thrust Trajectories” Apr 2006
  • Member of First Place Team in 1st Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition, Fall 2006
  • Lead Member of Third Place Team in 3rd Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition, Fall 2008
  • JPL Prometheus Project Team Award, 2005
  • JPL Mission Analysis & Engineering Team Award for JIMO, 2005
  • NASA Group Achievement Award : GRACE project member, 2003 
    Gathright Scholar –Top student in class at Texas A&M College of Engineering for 1997 and 1999
  • Keynote Speaker, Amarillo Independent School District Baccalaureate Service, 1999
    National Collegiate Engineering Awards recipient, 1997
  • National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, 1999-2003
  • Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 2003-2005
  • Deke Slayton Memorial Scholarship (National Competition by American Astronautical Society), 1999
  • Texas Space Grant Fellow

Research Interests

Orbital mechanics with applications in the following areas:
  • General trajectory designs for spacecraft missions to low-Earth-orbit, Geo-stationary, the Moon, libration points, Mars, comets, asteroids, and the Jupiter and Saturn moon systems
  • Periodic orbits and general orbit stability (high-fidelity repeat ground track design, constellation design, cyclers, planetary moon trajectories)
  • Third-body and manifold dynamics (efficient gravitational captures and escapes)
  • Trajectory optimization algorithms and techniques (ballistic, low-thrust, impulsive-thrust)
  • Development of general mission design tools using fast, robust, higher-order methods
  • Efficient software implementation – (fast ephemeris propagation, parallel computing, multi-objective optimization)