Penina Axelrad Honored with 2009 Kepler Award
September 30, 2009
Penina Axelrad, professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado, was honored September 25 at The Institute of Navigation GNSS 2009 conference with the prestigious 2009 Kepler Award. Axelrad's achievements were described by the selection committee as "continued contributions in the field of satellite navigation; dedication to the education of future generations of navigation engineers; and extensive service to professional societies including The Institute of Navigation."
Axelrad has an extensive history of significant contributions to the field of satellite navigation including receiver autonomous GPS integrity monitoring (RAIM), GPS bistatic radar, satellite formation flying using GPS, GPS-based orbit and satellite attitude determination, and multipath characterization, modeling and mitigation, according to ION. She has authored or co-authored 37 peer reviewed journal papers relating to satellite navigation, written 85 conference papers, served as an author/associate editor of AIAA’s GPS “Blue Book” — the two-volume textbook Global Positioning System: Theory and Applications.
Axelrad has been educating navigation engineers for the past 17 years at the University of Colorado. Her current research interests include: GPS technology and applications for real-time satellite orbit and attitude determination, GPS surface reflections, GPS multipath characterization and mitigation, orbital dynamics and spacecraft rendezvous.
She is a senior member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, a fellow of The Institute of Navigation and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and is a past president of The Institute of Navigation. She was the recipient of the 1996 AIAA Sperry Award and 2003 ION Tycho Brahe Award. She received a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University and S.B. and S.M. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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