Malcolm D. Shuster Explained

Malcolm D. Shuster (31 July 1943 – 23 February 2012) was an American physicist and aerospace engineer, whose work contributed significantly to spacecraft attitude determination.[1] [2] In 1977 he joined the Attitude Systems Operation of the Computer Sciences Corporation in Silver Spring, Maryland, during which time he developed the QUaternion ESTimator (QUEST) algorithm for static attitude determination.[3] He later, with F. Landis Markley, helped to develop the standard implementation of the Kalman filter used in spacecraft attitude estimation. During his career, he authored roughly fifty technical papers[4] on subjects in physics and spacecraft engineering, many of which have become seminal within the field of attitude estimation, and held teaching assignments at Johns Hopkins University, Howard University, Carnegie-Mellon University and Tel-Aviv University. In 2000 the American Astronautical Society awarded him the Dirk Brouwer Award.[5] In June 2005 the American Astronautical Society held a special three-day Astronautics symposium in his honor[6]

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  1. News: Malcolm Shuster, Johns Hopkins Physicist, Dies at 68 . 23 November 2018 . Washington Post.
  2. Web site: Short Biography of Malcolm D. Shuster . The Malcolm D. Shuster Astronautics Symposium June 13–15, 2005 . John L. Crassidis . 23 November 2018.
  3. Web site: The Malcolm D. Shuster Astronautics Symposium June 13-15, 2005 . University of Buffalo . John L. Crassidis . 23 November 2018.
  4. Web site: Malcolm D. Shuster's research while affiliated with NASA, Вашингтон, West Virginia, United States and other places . ResearchGate . 23 November 2018.
  5. Web site: Dirk Brouwer Award . American Astronautical Society . 23 November 2018.
  6. Book: Crassidis . John . Markley . F. Landis . Junkins . John . Howell . Kathleen . The Malcolm D. Shuster Astronautics Symposium : proceedings of the University at Buffalo, State University of New York/AAS Malcolm D. Shuster Astronautics Symposium held June 12-15, 2005, Grand Island, New York . Published for the American Astronautical Society by Univelt . 0-87703-525-3 . 65176211 . 22 November 2018.

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