Space SMART has the potential to completely change operational paradigms in the space enterprise and the on-orbit architectures, and the foundations to make it a success will be in the people and education.”

Gurpartap Sandhoo

Professor, Naval Academy

Dr. Gurpartap “GP” Sandhoo currently occupies the Distinguished Visiting Professor Robert A. Heinlein Chair in Astronautics at the US Naval Academy. Prior to that he headed the Spacecraft Engineering Division, and was the acting Director of the Naval Center of Space Technology (NCST) at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), where he provided executive direction and technical leadership in conducting research, development and deployment of space systems with advanced technologies. He was also a flight controller at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, and was research & development engineer at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory, and in industry.