Joseph Yates
Guidance, Navigation, And Control Senior Engineer I
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Yates is a guidance, navigation, and control engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, building, and testing small satellite systems, currently advancing low-cost geostationary internet satellites at Astranis in San Francisco. He combines rigorous academic training from Princeton and Michigan with practical leadership—having managed a 4-month protoflight CubeSat sprint and led an 18-student mission assurance effort with NASA JPL collaboration. His work spans sensor fusion and nonlinear estimation for sub-arcminute pointing, star tracker calibration, thruster gimbal control, and electric propulsion integration, plus program and hardware-in-the-loop testing. Known for turning research-grade algorithms into flight-ready software and hardware, he improved sun-vector-based pointing accuracy by about 60% during an earlier Astranis internship. Always seeking collaboration, he applies a maker’s skillset—from PCB soldering and structural prototyping to control theory—to accelerate space access and education.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Portsmouth Abbey SchoolMaster of Science in Engineering - MSE Aerospace Engineering Flight Dynamics & Controls Track, Master of Science in Engineering - MSE Aerospace Engineering Flight Dynamics & Controls Track at University of MichiganBachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton UniversityProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jhyates/jhyates.github.io
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
jhyates/NA568-final-team10
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
This project is created for team 10, developing the final project for NA568, winter 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
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