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Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Raymond Dawson Centennial Teaching Fellowship

Education: Ph.D. 1996, University of Colorado at Boulder

Office Location: W.R. Woolrich Laboratories (WRW)
Room 412B - Mail Code: C0600

Phone: (512) 471-5696

Email: cesar.ocampo@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests:

• Astrodynamics and Celestial Mechanics
• Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization in Multibody Gravity Fields
• Mission Design and Analysis for Multiple Spacecraft Missions
• Dynamical Systems
• Numerical Methods

Dr. Cesar Ocampo joined us an Assistant Professor in the Fall 2000 semester. Dr. Ocampo was employed with Hughes Space and Communications Company in Los Angeles as a senior orbital analyst . He was part of the Mission Analysis and Operations section and was involved with mission planning and operations for commercial satellites. He recently lead a software development effort for mission planning and navigation for communications satellites equipped with a xenon-ion propulsion system. He was also the lead trajectory analyst for the recovery of a stranded satellite that used the Moon's gravity for a free return trajectory back to its intended geostationary orbit.