The AIG web pages make heavy use of cascading style sheet features for
formatting. You may still browse the text of the site, but for best
results, please use a CSS enabled browser. Netscape 6 and Mozilla 5
are good. IE 5 will do.
Ben Cichy develops flight software in the Division 31, Section 316,
Guidance Navigation and Control Software Group. Ben studied
at Cornell University where he earned Master of Engineering and Bachelor of
Science Degrees with Honors in Computer Science.
Ben is a member of the Phoenix Mars 2007 mission.
Currently Ben works on the Entry Descent and
Landing (EDL) team. He has also developed flight software for
the mission as part of the flight system team in Denver, CO.
Phoenix Mars 2007 Lander
Working on attitude determination and control flight software. + Read More
Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment
From 2002-2005: Responsible for science analysis flight software,
mission operations development, and software validation. + Read More
Validating the Autonomous EO-1 Science Agent
Presented as an invited talk during the workshop on Safe Agents at the 2003
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS03).
2005 Co-winner NASA Software of the Year
The ASE software team shared top honors in the 2005 NASA SOY competition.
2003 NASA Space Act Award
The ASE software team was awarded a NASA Space Act Award in recognition of
"Significant Scientific and Technical Contributions to NASA" for
"Software for the TechSat 21 Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (ASE)."
