Brian Douglas is a controls and systems engineer, previously working for Boeing (10 years as a GNC and Flight Controls Engineer) and Planetary Resources (5 years as the ADCS Lead Engineer and Director of Systems Engineering). He now has his own company working as a consultant for various companies including MathWorks (the makers of MATLAB and Simulink), making videos for their YouTube channel.
In this episode we discuss spacecraft attitude determination and control systems (ADCS, including reaction wheels, torque rods, star trackers, magnetometers), flight software, quaternions, euler angles, Kalman filters, orbit determination (GPS, IMUs), spacecraft modes (activation, safe), Monte Carlo simulations, hardware in the loop (HWITL) simulations, and software engineering.
Brian also shares some stories of his experience at Planetary Resources, including when the first spacecraft blew up on a rocket launch.
The video version of this podcast is on YouTube, as well as video clips from the episode (5-10 minutes): https://youtu.be/wkQww6pHFrI
Along with the podcast, my YouTube channel also include 50+ videos covering orbital mechanics / astrodynamics, numerical methods, and spacecraft attitude control and how to create your own simulations in Python.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt2NJAAW0Ln0hBpArRF1rpg
Feel free to reach out with any questions or comments over email: spaceengineeringpodcast@gmail.com