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Jay McMahon is an Associate Professor in the Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences department and CCAR at the ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï where he heads the Orbital Research Cluster for Celestial Applications (ORCCA) lab. ORCCA brings together researchers from a wide variety of backgrounds with the purpose of promoting the utilization and understanding of the Solar System by humankind. We advance the state of the art in astrodynamics, spacecraft autonomy and guidance, navigation & control (GNC) technologies in support of planetary science, space exploration, and industry. He was named a NASA Institute for Advanced concepts (NIAC) fellow in 2017, and a NASA Early Career Faculty fellow in 2018, and a DARPA Young Faculty Fellow in 2020. Asteroid (46829) McMahon (a main-belt binary asteroid) was named in his honor. He received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï in 2011, an MS in Astronautical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2006 and a BS in Aerospace Engineering fr