Coralie Adam leads the multi-mission Optical Navigation team at KinetX Aerospace, the first privately held company to provide NASA with deep space navigation and flight dynamics expertise.
During her 13 years at KinetX, Coralie has had lead roles on the navigation teams for NASA’s New Horizons, OSIRIS-REx, Lucy, and OSIRIS-APEX missions. Coralie’s work enabled the first exploration of the Pluto system and the historic sample collection of near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In addition to leading the OSIRIS-REx optical navigation team, she co-convened the scientific investigation of Bennu’s active particle ejection phenomena. Coralie is currently the Deputy Navigation Chief on NASA’s Lucy mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, a navigation lead and science co-investigator on the OSIRIS-APEx extended mission to asteroid Apophis, as well as supporting several commercial and government exploration initiatives to the moon and beyond.
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