Jon David Giorgini
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Wall of Honor Level: Air and Space Sponsor
Honored by:
Navigator for the Magellan Spacecraft's radar mapping of Venus (1991-1993).
Planned and implemented navigation for the first interplanetary aerobrake (1993).
Developed the on-site orbit determination software system used at Arecibo, Peurto Rico and Goldstone (Mojave Desert) planetary radar sites for asteroid tracking, participating in 40+ radar acquisitions (1994-1997).
Wrote Jet Propulsion Laboratory's horizons on-line ephemeris system providing reference standard dynamical ephemerides for 40,000+ solar system objects to 100,000+ world-wide users per year.
Member of navigation and radio science teams, doing orbit determination for the "near" spacecraft's orbital mapping of 433 Eros.
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