Dr. Marshall Kaplan, a Senior Professional Staffmember at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), will be discussing engineering solutions designed to remove orbital debris. Dr. Kaplan has been teaching courses on space and satellite topics since 1968. His professional experience includes assignments in industry, academia, and consulting. He is currently a senior advisor on military, civil and commercial space activities to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) within the Executive Office of the President (EOP). In recent years, Dr. Kaplan has spearheaded a number of space ventures related to the development of new expendable and reusable launch vehicles. Space News has referred to him as the "rocket design guru." Dr. Kaplan was instrumental in the design and development of three-axis stabilized attitude control systems for communication satellites, and he is the author of three books including the text, "Modern Spacecraft Dynamics and Control." In recent years he has served as chief engineer on two launch vehicle programs. He has written more than 100 papers and reports on various aspects of astronautics. Dr. Kaplan received advanced degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from M.I.T. and Stanford University, and he is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the American Astronautical Society (AAS).

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