AJ Piplica

AJ Piplica

Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Mr. A.J. Piplica is a leader, engineer, and entrepreneur in the aerospace industry. His…

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  • Hermeus Graphic

    Hermeus

    Atlanta, GA

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    Atlanta, Georgia

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    Atlanta, GA

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    Atlanta, GA

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    Greater Atlanta Area

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Education

Publications

  • Critical Flight Conditions of Operational Rocketback Trajectories

    AIAA Space 2012

    The paper presents recent work that the U.S. Air Force has conducted to better understand the range of potential rocketback trajectories that could meet future launch needs. Various vision architectures were considered to meet a variety of reference mission requirements. These trajectories were compared against each other to determine ranges of critical flight conditions of interest for detailed aerodynamic analysis. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis is presented to show where the…

    The paper presents recent work that the U.S. Air Force has conducted to better understand the range of potential rocketback trajectories that could meet future launch needs. Various vision architectures were considered to meet a variety of reference mission requirements. These trajectories were compared against each other to determine ranges of critical flight conditions of interest for detailed aerodynamic analysis. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis is presented to show where the most uncertainty in flight conditions appears. This analysis presents a starting point for determining the flight conditions requiring flight testing to validate CFD models.

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Projects

  • NASA-Air Force Joint Systems Study (JSS)

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    Study lead for fully-reusable, two-stage all-rocket reference architecture design and independent assessment of fully-reusable TBCC (NASA) and RBCC (Astrox Corp.) configurations.

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  • NASA-Air Force Joint Systems Study (JSS)

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    Study lead for fully-reusable, two-stage all-rocket reference architecture design and independent assessment of fully-reusable TBCC (NASA) and RBCC (Astrox Corp.) configurations.

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  • Space Systems Senior Design Proposal

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    Served as the Systems Engineer Lead for the Senior Design Team. Responsibilities included managing analysis of alternatives and mission planning, developing a multidisciplinary design and optimization environment, conducting trade studies, completing the final spacecraft design closure for a constellation of microsatellites designed to monitor space weather at the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange point.

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  • Spanish

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  • Croatian

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