page_title: Daniele Mortari
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context_page_description: Daniele Mortari is Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University and Chief Scientist for Space for Texas A&M ASTRO Center. Mortari is known for inventing the Flower Constellations and the k-vector range searching technique and the Theory of Connections.
  Mortari was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 "for contributions to navigational aspects of space
  systems", Fellow of the American Astronautical Society in 2012 "for outstanding contributions to astronautics", recipient of 2015 Dirk Brower Award "for seminal contributions to the theory and practice of spacecraft orbital and rotational dynamics, particularly attitude determination and satellite constellation design", and of 2007 IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award "for innovative designs of orbiting spacecraft constellations, and efficient algorithms for star identification and spacecraft attitude estimation". His other notable awards include: Texas A&M College of Engineering, Herbert H. Richardson Fellow Award. Texas A&M College of Engineering, William Keeler Memorial Award.
context_section_description: Daniele Mortari is Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University and Chief Scientist for Space for Texas A&M ASTRO Center. Mortari is known for inventing the Flower Constellations and the k-vector range searching technique and the Theory of Connections.
  Mortari was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 "for contributions to navigational aspects of space 
  systems", Fellow of the American Astronautical Society (AAS) in 2012 "for outstanding contributions to astronautics", recipient of 2015 Dirk Brower Award (AAS) "for seminal contributions to the theory and practice of spacecraft orbital and rotational dynamics, particularly attitude determination and satellite constellation design", and of 2007 IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award "for innovative designs of orbiting spacecraft constellations, and efficient algorithms for star identification and spacecraft attitude estimation". His other notable awards include: Texas A&M College of Engineering,  Herbert H. Richardson Fellow Award, (2015). Texas A&M College of Engineering,  William Keeler Memorial Award, (2015).  Best Paper Award, Mechanics Meeting Conference,  Honorary Member of IEEE-AESS Space System Technical Panel, (Sep. 2009), NASA Group Achievement Award, (May 2008), AIAA, Associate Fellow, (Nov. 2007), IEEE-AESS Distinguished Speaker, (Feb. 2005),
  Spacecraft Technology Center Award (Jan. 2003), NASA Group Achievement Award, (May 1989).
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