The FDF Team
A Proven Leader in Flight Dynamics, Supporting
NASA, Industry, and Global Space Missions
The Flight Dynamics Facility (FDF) is staffed by a team of highly skilled professionals, including mission analysts, navigation engineers, and software and sustaining engineers. With decades of experience, these experts provide mission support across a wide range of space programs. Their work spans mission analysis, trajectory design, navigation, and real-time operations, ensuring the success of both traditional space missions and non-traditional projects.
Technical Support
FDF technical support is provided via the Flight Dynamics Support Services (FDSS) III contract. In 2019, NASA awarded the FDSS III contract, a small business set-aside, to OPR, LLC of Beltsville, Maryland. The contract provide flight dynamics support and related services to the Engineering and Technology Directorate’s Mission and Systems Analysis Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. For more information, see
NASA Awards Contract for Flight Dynamics Support Services.
Key FDSS-III Personnel
Tim Richardson
FDSS-III Program Manager
Jessica LoPresti-Bellock
Operations Planning Engineering Lead
Trishal Khetia
Flight Operations Engineering Lead
Ted Owino
Sustaining Engineering Lead
Jeff Dibble
FDF Engineering Lead Manager
Ryan Patterson
Navigation Operations Engineering Lead
Travis Schrift
Cloud Computing Engineering Lead
Jennifer Stembridge
Software Engineering Lead
Herman Jones
Navigation Operations Deputy Engineering Lead
Technical Leadership
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