Justin Mansell
Navigation Engineer
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Mansell is a Navigation Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory with a decade of experience in spacecraft navigation, trajectory design, attitude control, numerical optimization, and machine learning. He transitioned from a postdoctoral role into operational orbit determination work, bringing hands-on mission experience from LightSail 2 and SNoOPI CubeSat operations to high-precision navigation problems. Justin has blended academic rigor—earning a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue—with practical systems engineering, including developing a drag-sail simulator for debris mitigation. He’s taught spaceflight operations and led a science operations center, giving him a rare mix of classroom mentorship and mission-level operational leadership. Based in Pasadena, he couples research-grade analytical methods with production software development to close the gap between algorithms and flown systems. An appetite for applied machine learning and optimization signals he’s likely to push navigation solutions toward more autonomous, data-driven approaches.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at University of Calgary
Github Skills (1)
tabletop2
Github contributions (5)
jrmansel/guardsmen-generator
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
Scripts for generating and processing unique Imperial Guardsmen for the Warhammer 40k tabletop game
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
tabletop-game40kwarhammer-40kwarhammerimperial
thomasantony/beluga
May 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:17 commits in 9 months
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