Internet Constellations are Still Not Understood.
It’s May 2024: Falcon 9 is roughly on-target for a mind-boggling 144 launches this year, Starship continues its march to full capability, and thanks to vario...
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Spaceflight
How TO Land an Orbital Rocket Booster: a gentle mathematical introduction
With terminal-phase Guidance Navigation and Control in the news lately with the (qualified) success of Intuitive Machines and JAXA’s lunar landers, I wante...
A perspective on the decoupling of spacecraft launch cost with mass and volume
This piece aims to clearly and concisely lay out the bull case for a post-Starship space industry. While I wasn’t breaking new ground with this analysis (a l...
Orbital Debris Removal With SmallSats - Mission REMOVEDD
To address the ever-increasing problem of space debris, I propose a solution involving electrically-propulsed Small-Sats. The focus of this investigation is ...
Game Theory
Human-level Trick-Taking Card Game AI
Leveraging reinforcement, imitation, and supervised learning to beat humans at Judgement, a playing card game which I’ve played far, far too much of (repos...
Breaking the SPL-T World Record
An obsession with finding the optimal strategy for a simplistic puzzle game leads me through an exploration of various fields of computer science. After coun...
Solving Nim (The Matchstick Game)
A tough loss at a common grade-school pen and paper game while distracted in class led to me getting way more distracted in class, and spending the weekend w...
Optimization
How TO Land an Orbital Rocket Booster: a gentle mathematical introduction
With terminal-phase Guidance Navigation and Control in the news lately with the (qualified) success of Intuitive Machines and JAXA’s lunar landers, I wante...
Breaking the SPL-T World Record
An obsession with finding the optimal strategy for a simplistic puzzle game leads me through an exploration of various fields of computer science. After coun...
Orbital Debris Removal With SmallSats - Mission REMOVEDD
To address the ever-increasing problem of space debris, I propose a solution involving electrically-propulsed Small-Sats. The focus of this investigation is ...
GN&C
How TO Land an Orbital Rocket Booster: a gentle mathematical introduction
With terminal-phase Guidance Navigation and Control in the news lately with the (qualified) success of Intuitive Machines and JAXA’s lunar landers, I wante...
Orbital Debris Removal With SmallSats - Mission REMOVEDD
To address the ever-increasing problem of space debris, I propose a solution involving electrically-propulsed Small-Sats. The focus of this investigation is ...
Machine Learning
Human-level Trick-Taking Card Game AI
Leveraging reinforcement, imitation, and supervised learning to beat humans at Judgement, a playing card game which I’ve played far, far too much of (repos...
Breaking the SPL-T World Record
An obsession with finding the optimal strategy for a simplistic puzzle game leads me through an exploration of various fields of computer science. After coun...