Scott Piggott
Principal GNC Engineer at Impulse Space
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Piggott is a Principal GNC engineer with a decade of hands-on experience developing guidance, navigation, and control software from concept through flight for missions including SpaceX Dragon, Orion, and an interplanetary LASP science mission. He blends deep software and ADCS expertise—having led LASP’s ADCS team and built the group's integrated simulation backbone in collaboration with CU Boulder—to deliver robust, flight-proven systems under tight schedules and constrained budgets. As Chief Engineer at Atomos and now Principal GNC Engineer at Impulse Space, he focuses on practical, cost-effective rendezvous and proximity-operations solutions that trade theoretical elegance for operational reliability. Known for turning “impossible” timelines into successful launches, he pairs systems-thinking with hands-on simulation and flight-readiness work, and brings a rare mix of mission operations, test campaign leadership, and control algorithm design.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering at Colorado School of MinesMaster of Science Aerospace Engineering, Master of Science Aerospace Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (5)
simulation10
simulation-framework10
astrodynamics10
dynamics10
python9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
AVSLab/basilisk
Jul 2015 - Oct 2016
Astrodynamics simulation framework
Contributions:60 commits in 1 year 2 months
pythonastrodynamicssimulationsimulation-frameworkdynamics
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