The SNAFD Team has a remarkable depth of orbit dynamics experience, with over 130
accumulative years of mission design and execution. We augment this core team with our Senior Advisory
Council (SAC) whose role is to independently review and assess the quality and reliability of SNAFD
solutions. The SAC consists of 13 retired JPL navigators, headed by James P. McDanell, former head
of JPL´s Navigation and Flight Mechanics Section. They contribute an additional 420 years of
experience in Space Mission Operations while providing our customers with independent, formal reviews
and associated documentation.
Collectively, our orbit dynamics experience spans more than 75 programs across military,
commercial, and scientific endeavors. We have supported nearly 35 military programs such as
STSS (SBIRS Low), MUOS, DSCS, FLTSAT, Delta Star, GPS and UHF. Commercial programs have been
a key part of our SNAFD efforts, and we have partnered in at least 10 of them, including IRIDIUM,
Teledesic, Intelsat, Orbview, Koreasat and Indonesiasat. We are proud of our participation in over 30
scientific programs like MESSENGER, New Horizons, Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, Stardust, Genesis and Pioneer
Venus.