Malcolm D. Shuster

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.[2] During his career, he authored roughly fifty technical papers[4][2] 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.[1] In 2000 the American Astronautical Society awarded him the Dirk Brouwer Award.[5][3] In June 2005 the American Astronautical Society held a special three-day Astronautics symposium in his honor[6]

  1. ^ a b "Malcolm Shuster, Johns Hopkins Physicist, Dies at 68". Washington Post. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Short Biography of Malcolm D. Shuster" (PDF). The Malcolm D. Shuster Astronautics Symposium June 13–15, 2005. John L. Crassidis. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  3. ^ a b "The Malcolm D. Shuster Astronautics Symposium June 13-15, 2005". University of Buffalo. John L. Crassidis. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Malcolm D. Shuster's research while affiliated with NASA, Вашингтон, West Virginia, United States and other places". ResearchGate. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  5. ^ "Dirk Brouwer Award". American Astronautical Society. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  6. ^ 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. ISBN 0-87703-525-3. OCLC 65176211. Retrieved 22 November 2018.