David D. Morabito

David D. Morabito was born in Los Angeles, California. Since 1973, he has worked at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on several engineering and scientific research projects. Among the areas he has worked on are spacecraft navigation, Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Radio Science experiments on the Voyager 2, Ulysses, and Galileo spacecraft, performance characterization of beam-waveguide antennas, media propagation effects on spacecraft telecommunication links, and telecommunications systems design for proposed future space missions. His most recent project is studying the use of Ka-band (32 GHz) as a telecommunications link frequency for spacecraft communications. He has over 150 publications in several professional journals, conference proceedings and other periodicals. He is a full member of the International Astronomical Union, the American Astronomical Society, and the American Geophysical Union. He is a Life Senior Member of the IEEE.