Freeside
Labs.
Spacecraft guidance,
navigation & control
Freeside Labs designs the algorithms and writes the flight software that points satellites: slew planning, state estimation, control design, and the simulations that prove them. One senior engineer with a decade-plus on flight programs.
- Since
- 2021
- Spaceflight
- 12 yrs
- Toolchain
- Rust · C++ · MATLAB
ADCS CONSOLE // CAPABILITIES
CH-01 · LIVE| MODE | INIT |
|---|---|
| q | +0.0000 +0.0000 +0.0000 +1.0000 |
| |ω| | 0.000 °/s |
| ERR | 0.000 ° |
| TIP | 0.0 mm |
| PLAN | — |
| T+ | 00:00:00 |
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01 Attitude guidance
Slew planning and agile maneuvering, pointing and jitter budgets, mission timeline studies.
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02 Estimation
Attitude determination and Kalman filtering; star tracker, gyro and magnetometer modeling, calibration and alignment.
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03 Control
Robust control design, stability and performance analysis, actuator sizing for wheels, CMGs and torque rods.
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04 Flexible-body dynamics
Flex modeling and simulation, structure–control interaction, controllers that hold margin with real appendages.
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05 Flight & embedded software
GNC flight code in Rust, C++ and MATLAB/Simulink. Embedded controls heritage on New Glenn fluid systems, DO-178C requirements.
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06 Simulation & V&V
Closed-loop 6-DOF simulation, Monte Carlo campaigns, flight-hardware characterization, PDR/CDR packages.
Heritage
Programs supported for
- Maxar
- MDA Space
- Apex
- True Anomaly
Before Freeside
- Blue Origin
- Millennium Space Systems
- NASA Goddard missions
- SpaceX
- Orbital Sciences
MISSION LOG
YOUNES TALEB · PRINCIPAL| EPOCH | STATION | ENTRY |
|---|---|---|
| 2021–NOW | Freeside Labs | Independent GNC engineering for commercial and defense satellite programs. |
| 2018–2021 | Blue Origin | Embedded controls for New Glenn pneumatic and hydraulic systems; DO-178C requirements tracing. |
| 2016–2018 | Millennium Space | ADCS design, star tracker and magnetics hardware; Altair Pathfinder flight operations. |
| 2014–2016 | a.i. solutions | Attitude ground systems for NASA's MMS and NICER missions. |
| 2014 | UIUC | Graduate research, CubeSat formation flying. M.Eng, Aerospace. |
| 2011–2013 | SpaceX · Orbital | Launch, test and avionics internships. B.S. Aerospace, Virginia Tech. |
// PUBLICATIONS
- 2015 · AIAA SciTechInformation-Driven Systems Engineering Study of a Formation Flying Demonstration Mission using Six CubeSats ↗
- 2016 · AIAA/AAS AstrodynamicsOperational Experience with the Wald Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Conjunction Assessment from the Magnetospheric MultiScale Mission ↗
Tell me about
your vehicle.
Analysis studies or embedded support, from requirements through CDR and on to flight code.
younes@freesidelabs.com