Sungpil Yoon

About Sungpil Yoon

Experienced technical leader specializing in satellite navigation, orbit determination…

Experience

1. Senior Flight Dynamics Engineer - Project Kuiper

   Amazon

   Mar 2020 — Present

   Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the ground orbit determination and prediction system as a part of the ground Flight Dynamics System. I have designed the end-to-end system including defining requirements, identifying algorithms, defining interface with the hosting system and integration testing. The resulting solution was a computationally efficient system scalable to support mega-constellation operation.\\\\n\\\\nSubject Matter Expert on the onboard navigation system on Kuiper satellites. I have designed the end-to-end navigation system starting from the requirements and algorithm of the onboard navigation filter, interface with other onboard GNC software, telemetry and integration test. I have also guided the onboard GNSS receiver development resulting in an innovative GNSS receiver that meets stringent performance requirements in all mission phases.\\\\n\\\\nAs an SME, I coordinated efforts distributed among different teams such as software engineers, RF engineers, antenna engineers, mechanical engineers, etc.\\\\n\\\\nProposal development. I have contributed to the navigation portion of bigger proposals and lead navigation/PNT centered proposal efforts for government funding opportunities.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n

Education

• The University of Texas at Arlington

  MS, Aerospace Engineering

  1992 — 1994

• Yonsei University

  BS, Physics

  1987 — 1991

• Auburn University

  Ph.D, Aerospace Engineering

  1994 — 1999