CEO, Space Systems Integration, LLC
B.S. ASE 1984, The University of Virginia
M.S. ASE 1988, The University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. ASE 1995, The University of Texas at Austin
Tobin Anthony is the chief executive officer of Space Systems Integration (SSI), LLC an aerospace engineering consulting company headquartered in Chantilly, VA. SSI’s customers vary from commercial, civilian and classified entities within the space industry. Anthony is a nationally recognized expert in spacecraft attitude and control and has recently specialized in inter-spacecraft laser communication.
Anthony received his B.S. in aerospace engineering from The University of Virginia. He earned both his M.S. and his Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
Anthony’s professional career began at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 1984 as an orbit determination specialist in the Flight Dynamics Division. He spent 13 years at Goddard and focused on spacecraft guidance, navigation and control (GNC). During this time, received a competitive award that funded his graduate work at UT Austin. He began work at Orbital Sciences Corporation in 1997 and began supporting classified U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) programs in 2001. He joined SSI in 2009.
Anthony was heavily involved in GNC technology development as the transition began in the 1990s to flying embedded spacecraft flight software. He pioneered a simulation-based software development methodology at NASA Goddard that has been used on spacecraft programs since the late 1990s. At Orbital, he developed an attitude Kalman filter that derives spacecraft attitude rate from star tracker measurements. He supported several classified development programs at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). While supporting DARPA, he led the successful Mandrake-2 demonstration of spacecraft-to-spacecraft laser communications.
He has served on numerous review boards at NASA and the NRO. His honors include multiple NASA Group Achievement Awards and NRO Group Achievement Awards. Anthony has co-authored several professional conference and journal articles. He is the author of Building and Maintaining an Intranet with the Macintosh.
Anthony lives in Great Falls, VA with his wife Sharon (MBA 1989 UT Austin). They have three adult children and two grandchildren, with hopefully more on the way. He enjoys bicycling as well as hiking around the Washington D.C. area and the Blue Ridge Mountains with his Black Labrador mix, Remy.
