Space Travel:

Mathematics Uncovers an Interplanetary Superhighway

People Involved

Dr. Edward Belbruno

Edward Belbruno is a graduate of the Courant Institute of New York University, where his advisor was Juergen Moser. He is a Visiting Research Collaborator in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University. His areas of interest are celestial mechanics. Learn More...

 

Dr. Martin W. Lo

Since 1986, Martin Lo has been a research scientist in the Navigation and Mission Design Section at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He received his Bachelor of Science in 1975 from the California Institute of Technology in Mathematics and his PhD. Learn More...

 

Dr. Josep Masdemont

Josep J. Masdemont is professor in the Applied Mathematics Department of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). His research interests include applications of Dynamical Systems and Numerical Analysis to Mission Design. Learn More...



Dr. Shane Ross

Shane D. Ross is on the faculty of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics. Ross's research interests include the study of spacecraft control and mission design, geometrical methods for engineering systems. Learn More...