John Carrico
Owner, CTO, & Astrogator
Cockeysville, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Carrico is an experienced astrodynamics leader, software architect, and founder who designs mission concepts, navigation strategies, and flight-dynamics software across lunar, cislunar, LEO, GEO, and interplanetary missions. As Owner and CTO of Space Exploration Engineering and former lead architect of STK/Astrogator, he blends hands-on trajectory design and operations with product strategy and commercial due diligence. He has supported or led analysis for landmark missions from Clementine and LCROSS to commercial constellations and served as an advisor to industry and research organizations including Google, B612, and SpinLaunch. A dedicated educator and editor, he teaches orbital mechanics internationally and curates technical content for the Journal of Small Satellites, bringing practical operational insight into academia. Notably, he has built operational flight-dynamics systems and algorithms adopted worldwide to automate planning, reduce risk, and keep “rocks from hitting our home planet.”
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Michigan State UniversityDondero
Github Skills (9)
adam9
orbital-mechanics7
python7
orbit7
server6
astrodynamics6
propagation5
space4
code-analysis3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
B612-Asteroid-Institute/adam-hack-days
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 7 comments in 4 months
adamhost
B612-Asteroid-Institute/adam_home
Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
ADAM python client and notebooks
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years
pythonadamjupyter-notebooks
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