Andrew Mishkin

American systems engineer

Andrew Mishkin

Born	1958 Los Angeles, California, US
Alma mater	UCLA (BS, MS)
Known for	Lead of the Sojourner Mars rover mission
Scientific career
Fields	Systems engineering, robotics
Institutions	NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Website	Profile at JPL

Andrew Mishkin (born c. 1958, in Los Angeles) is a senior systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he coordinated the development of various robotic vehicles and their subsystems for more than 15 years. He was on the Sojourner rover team at its formation, eventually becoming an uplink sequence planner as Sojourner explored Mars.^[1] In 1997, he received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and was also selected as one of "The 35 People Who Made the Year" in the December issue of Vanity Fair magazine. He then was a Mission Operations System Development Manager on Mars Exploration Rover mission.^[2]

Mishkin grew up in West Los Angeles, graduated from University High School (Los Angeles, California), and then obtained a BS degree in Systems Engineering (man/machine systems) and an MS in Engineering (problem solving and decision making) from UCLA. He is a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi and Phi Beta Kappa.

His wife, Sharon Laubach, was also an engineer on the Sojourner and MER missions, the former while a Caltech graduate student.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Andrew Mishkin (2004). Berkeley Books (ed.). Sojourner: An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission. ISBN 978-0-425-19839-1.
^ "Andrew Mishkin Profile". mars.nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 19 August 2021.

External links

AN AUTOMATED ROVER COMMAND GENERATION PROTOTYPE FOR THE MARS 2003 MARIE CURIE ROVER, 2003, NASA Technical Reports Server
A Tool for Autonomous Ground-based Rover Planning, 2001, NASA Technical Reports Server
From prime to extended mission : evolution of the Mars Exploration Rover tactical uplink process, 2006, NASA

Technical Reports Server

Application of state analysis and goal-based operations to a MER mission scenario, 2006, NASA Technical Reports Server
Implementing distributed operations: a comparison of two Deep Space Missions, 2006, NASA Technical Reports Server
Mars Exploration Rover (MER) surface mission tactical uplink concepts, processes, and tools, 2002, NASA Technical Reports Server
Autonomously generating operations sequences for a Mars Rover using AI-based planning, 2001, NASA Technical Reports Server
Making tracks on Mars : mission operations for deep space, 2006, NASA Technical Reports Server
Application of state analysis and goal-based operations to a MER mission scenario, 2006, NASA Technical Reports Server