Bio
BioDr. Yanping Guo is a space mission designer and section supervisor. She started work at APL as a post-doctoral fellow in 1992 after receiving her Ph.D. in physics. She was the mission design lead for a number of NASA mission proposals, studies, and flight projects. Dr. Guo created an innovative mission design for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission and has been the mission design and navigation manager since 2008, overseeing the APL Mission Design and JPL Navigation teams for the mission’s development, launch, and flight operations. As the mission design lead for NASA’s New Horizons for 20 years, she is responsible for the full mission life cycle from development to mission operation, and she designed the New Horizons launch, mission trajectory, comprehensive Pluto-Charon flyby, and close encounter with the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth.
Notable Awards and Leadership
Notable Awards and Leadership| Year(s) | Description |
|---|---|
| Year(s) 2012 - Present | Description Member, International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics (ISSFD) Program Committee |
| Year(s) 2012 | Description AIAA Associate Fellow |
| Year(s) 2011, 2017 | Description AIAA Technical Chair, AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting |
| Year(s) 2011 - 2012 | Description Member, Committee for the Assessment of the U.S. Air Force’s Astrodynamics Standards, National Research Council |
| Year(s) 2008 - 2020 | Description Member, AIAA Astrodynamics Technical Committee |
| Year(s) 2008, 2017 | Description NASA Group Achievement Award, New Horizons |
| Year(s) 2004 | Description Asteroid 28513 named Guo in recognition of a fundamental contribution to the exploration of the solar system as the mission trajectory designer of the New Horizons Pluto Kuiper Belt mission |
| Year(s) 1998, 2002 | Description NASA Group Achievement Awards, NEAR |
