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]

References
  1. "Malcolm Shuster, Johns Hopkins Physicist, Dies at 68". Washington Post. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  2. "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. "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. Retrieved 22 November 2018.


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