Atilla Saadat

Jun 2026Flight SoftwareF PrimeTelemetry

An Adaptive Telemetry Probe for Resource-Constrained Spacecraft Using F Prime

In-progress research on an adaptive, onboard telemetry probe for resource-constrained spacecraft, built on NASA JPL's F Prime and targeting the GPDM 6U CubeSat. Paper submitted to AIAA SciTech 2027.

★ In progress · AIAA SciTech 2027 (submitted)

Apr 2026GNCReentryTrajectory Design

GNC Engineer @ Varda Space Industries

Spacecraft GNC Engineer II at Varda, covering Monte Carlo simulation, trajectory design, and on-orbit operations for the W-Series reentry vehicles that bring in-space manufacturing back to Earth.

May 2025Machine LearningSpace WeatherPyTorch

MIT ARCLab STORM-AI Competition

Placed 4th in the MIT ARCLab STORM-AI competition: real-time thermospheric density forecasting for LEO spacecraft with a BiGRU-attention network.

Sep 2024GNCMission OpsSatellites

GNC Engineer @ Turion Space

GNC Engineer for the Droid.001 and Droid.002 satellite missions: autonomous mission ops and attitude control optimization for in-situ Non-Earth Imaging (NEI).

Nov 2022ADCSMASc ThesisTesting

MASc. Thesis, Ch. 1 - ADCS Testing Optimizations

MASc. Thesis, Chapter 1: Optimizing Attitude Determination & Control System (ADCS) testing for nanosatellite development.

Nov 2022ADCSMASc ThesisEstimation

MASc. Thesis, Ch. 2 - On-orbit Spacecraft Inertia Tensor Estimation

MASc. Thesis, Chapter 2: Estimating spacecraft inertia tensors on-orbit from attitude telemetry.

Nov 2022ADCSMASc ThesisComputer Vision

MASc. Thesis, Ch. 3 - Earth Horizon Sensor Development

MASc. Thesis, Chapter 3: Attitude determination with self-inspection cameras repurposed as Earth horizon sensors.

Nov 2022MASc ThesisPower SystemsSTK

MASc. Thesis, Ch. 4 - Automated Solar Power Generation Analysis

MASc. Thesis, Chapter 4: Automated spacecraft solar power generation analysis for NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's StarBurst spacecraft.

★ Conducted for NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's StarBurst spacecraft

Oct 2019CubeSatSystems EngineeringLeadership

WinSAT-1: 3U LEO Earth Observation Cube Satellite

Founder, President, and Lead Systems Engineer of WinSAT: a 3U LEO Earth-observation CubeSat.

Jul 2019Machine LearningADCSResearch

ADCS Fault Detection and Isolation with Ensemble Machine Learning Techniques

Satellite ADCS fault detection and isolation using ensemble machine learning techniques.

Jun 2019AvionicsRocketryEmbedded

WinSAT Rocketry Division Data Acquisition Module

Aerodynamics data acquisition module for the UWindsor Rocketry Team: undergraduate avionics engineering project.

Feb 2019Earth ObservationOptimizationResearch

CryoRoute - Globally Optimized Naval Routes in North Arctic Ocean

Globally optimized naval routes in the North Arctic Ocean from Earth observation data: undergraduate research project.

May 2018RoboticsDynamicsInternship

Mujin Inc. Internship - Dynamics Identification for Industrial Robotics

Dynamics identification for industrial robotics: robotics systems engineering internship at Mujin Inc., Tokyo, Japan.

Jul 2016NuclearHardwareResearch

Demo. Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Nuclear Fusion Reactor

Demonstration inertial electrostatic confinement nuclear fusion reactor: undergraduate nuclear engineering research project.