Joel Krajewski

Spacecraft Engineer with over 30 years experience in Systems Engineering, architecture, design, test, operations, and project management of planetary exploration missions such as the Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity Mars rovers, the Phoenix Mars Lander, and the MarCO and ASTERIA Cubesats. Current position is Chief Engineer at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, with additional duty as Project Manager for the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) gamma-ray telescope Small Explorers mission and Project Manager for the Lunar Surface Electromagnetic Experiment – Night (LuSEE-Night) CLPS payload.

[1] K. P. Hand, …G. H. Tan-Wang, J. Krajewski, K. Hurst, ….et. al., “Science Goals and Mission Architecture of the Europa Lander Mission Concepts”, Planet. Sci. J. 3 2, 2022, DOI 10.3847/PSJ/ac4493.
[2] A. Klesh, J. Baker, J. Krajewski, “MarCO: Flight Review and Lessons Learned”, Utah State University SmallSat Conference, 2019
[3] A. Marinan, B. Clement, C. Colley, J. Essmiller, D. Forgette, A. Klesh, J. Krajewski, T. Martin-Mur, D. Sternberg, J. Steinkraus, B. Young, “MarCO:Early Operations of the First CubeSats to Mars”, Utah State University SmallSat Conference, 2018
[4] M. W. Smith, M. Knapp, S. Seager, C. Pong, A. Donner, B. Campuzano, P. Di Pasquale, C. Smith, J. Krajewski, M. White, “ASTERIA: A CubeSat Enabling High Precision Photometry in a Small Package”, In: 42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 2018.
[5] M. W. Smith, A. Donner, M. Knapp, C. Pong, C. Smith, J. Luu, P. Di Pasquale, R. Bocchino Jr., B. Campuzano, J. Loveland, C. Colley, A. Babuscia, M. White, J. Krajewski, S. Seager, “On-Orbit Results and Lessons Learned from the ASTERIA Space Telescope Mission”, 32nd Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, 2018.
[6] C. A. Lewicki, J. A. Krajewski and P. A. Ilott, “Phoenix Mars Scout UHF Relay-Only Operations”, AIAA SpaceOps Conference, 2006
[7] J. Krajewski, K. Burke, et al., “MER: from landing to six wheels on Mars…twice’, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Volume 2, 2005, DOI:10.1109/ICSMC.2005.1571408.