Session 9

Michael Amato is a systems engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He is the manager and lead engineer for GSFC's Planetary line of business. He has a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering and a graduate degree in systems engineering. Michael has worked probe missions, entry probe designs, and prototype testing for a large part of the past decade. Michael has over 25 years of experience developing and building a variety of flight instruments and missions at NASA, working in both the science and engineering directorates at GSFC.