Eric Stromswald

‍Eric is President and Chief Engineer of Cayuga Astronautics. He founded the company in 2013 to fill the void left in the market by the closure of Ithaco Space Systems. The first 6 Magnetic Torquer Bars designed and manufactured by Cayuga Astronautics are scheduled to launch in late 2015. Eric has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science. Eric has 15 years of experience developing attitude control systems for spacecraft including: 1) The very powerful, extremely low jitter, 2 Nm reaction wheels currently controlling a number of large satellites including the GeoEye 1 spacecraft, which when launched was the highest resolution earth imaging commercial satellite ever to fly; 2) the very small .006 Nm reaction wheels used to control a number of small spacecraft, including the two Grail spacecraft which recently completed an ultra-precise gravity map of the moon; 3) the tiny 0.31 Nms CMG used to control the attitude of the extremely agile Violet Spacecraft; 4) the huge 2300 Nms Next Generation Control Moment Gyro for the Naval Research Labs.