Ben Diedrich
Engineer at Dynamic Concepts, LLC
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Diedrich is an aerospace engineer with 16 years of experience applying controls, dynamics, and systems engineering to space missions, currently working on guidance and controls for the Near Earth Asteroid Scout solar sail mission. He has led navigation, deployment, and control system development for NASA solar sail demonstrations and contributed systems engineering expertise to NOAA’s DSCOVR program, earning recognition for acquisition excellence. Comfortable with both hands-on simulation and program-level trade studies, he writes Matlab, C++, and legacy Ada code, and produces 3D models and animations to communicate complex technical ideas. His background spans industry leaders and government agencies—Lockheed Martin, NOAA, and small mission teams—bringing a blend of mission design, verification, and practical flight-software experience. Notably, he has translated physical coefficients into machine-readable formats and authored deployment algorithms and test plans that bridge hardware development and flight dynamics. Based in Huntsville, AL, he seeks interesting engineering problems that leverage his deep domain knowledge in gossamer spacecraft and space mission planning.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Master's Degree, Aeronautics and Astronautics at University of Washington
Github Skills (11)
ckan10
metadata10
kerbal-space10
indexer10
plugin9
solar9
thrust8
flying5
simulate4
solar-system4
web-application3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bld/bld-ode
Apr 2010 - Apr 2018
Contributions:30 commits, 8 pushes in 8 years 1 month
bld/PersistentThrust
Jun 2015 - Sep 2018
Kerbal Space Program plugin that implements low thrust propulsion during timewarp with systems like solar sails and ion engines.
Contributions:12 releases, 57 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 3 months
kerbalthrustpropulsionsolarion
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