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Schmidhuber is employed at the German Space Operations Center (GSOC) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Currently he is responsible for the ground system engineering for geostationary projects, especially ESA's new data-relay satellite system (EDRS) that is operated from GSOC. He has worked in flight dynamics, mission operations and system development for various LEO and GEO satellite projects since 1994. Among his activities are establishing of intranet sites for operations and the application of virtualization in the control room environment.



Mr. Schmidhuber was born and grew up in Munich, Germany. The interest in spaceflight and astronomy goes back to the early seventies and was influenced strongly by the Apollo era. He graduated in Aerospace Engineering in 1994 at the Technical University of Munich. After several space-related post-diploma jobs he joined a contractor company to work for mission operations at DLR. In 2006 he became a staff member with DLR.





Young H. Lee is the Advanced Design Engineering Technical Group Supervisor and Project Support Lead in the Project Systems Engineering and Formulation Section in Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She is currently supporting the Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS) program office in the area of mission analysis in coordinating a variety of mission studies that support the advocacy of new RPS for future solar system exploration.



Over the last ten years, she has held many diverse leadership positions in NASA programs and projects establishing strategic and collaborative working relationships across many organizations within NASA, including its partners. In addition, she has over twenty years of experience in the development and deployment of operations systems for deep space missions, focusing on operations cost reduction, user-productivity improvements and increased information throughput in support of many NASA deep space missions.

Ms. Lee has a M.S. in Management of Information Systems at the Claremont Graduate University in California in 1992 and a B.S. in Computer Information Systems at the California Polytechnic State University in Pomona in 1984. She currently lives in Pomona, California and is also the proud mother of two aspiring, young men.