Dr. Matt Bourassa

PhD in aerospace engineering. Flight Dynamics Analyst with Calian Advanced Technologies at the Canadian Space Agency (I do spacecraft orbit stuff).

[Dr. Matt Bourassa @DocBourassa]

@PhD_Genie Modelling and Control of Lunisolar Perturbations on Highly Eccentric Love.

[Dr. Matt Bourassa @DocBourassa]

Nothing like celebrating one's birthday by being paged x2 overnight and having to go into work twice to make sure nothing collides with one of our satellites. #SpaceEngineers #Canada

[Canadian Space Agency @csa_asc]

Today, on March 4, 2022, SCISAT will orbit Earth for the 100,000th time😱 Launched in 2003, SCISAT collects invaluable data on the chemistry of the atmosphere to better understand climate change.

Learn more: https://t.co/LMHxdCRazw

📸: Bristol Aerospace

[Dr. Matt Bourassa @DocBourassa]

10 years ago today I started my 2 year stint with @csa_asc with the research affiliate program as a grad student. I've been back as a contractor with @CalianGroup in SatOps for almost 3 years and couldn't imagine a better place in Canada to work!

[Dr. Matt Bourassa @DocBourassa]

@aux_clare Where's the eclare? :D

[Dr. Matt Bourassa @DocBourassa]

@rocdocmars @Peter_Grindrod @ESA_ExoMars That's awesome news. Well deserved!

[Dr. Matt Bourassa @DocBourassa]

Nothing caps off a month of being on-call quite like planning a satellite collision avoidance manoeuvre! #canadian #space

[Dr. Matt Bourassa @DocBourassa]

@EdwinKlipp WYSIWYG

[Dr. Matt Bourassa @DocBourassa]

Not gonna lie, a part of me is super envious of all the folks working on #PerseveranceRover. But this week I got to generate a set of retrograde and prograde burns to recapture a satellite groundtrack. And you know what? My job is still pretty darn cool. #cdnspace

[CAS @TravelAndDoggos]

@JordanPeele I think you would reeaallly like @justinaireland’s book #DreadNation... wink wink nudge nudge. A book this good could be the next big blockbuster.

[Dr. Matt Bourassa @DocBourassa]

@GavinOnTheMoon Be careful to not fall into state of procrasti-baking that I found myself in when I was in your situation. ;)

[Dr. Matt Bourassa @DocBourassa]

@m_fergs ;)

[Dr. Matt Bourassa @DocBourassa]

@m_fergs LondON?

[Dr. Matt Bourassa @DocBourassa]

@kfacciol Did you hear about my orbit joke that has been going around?

[Matthew A. Cherry @MatthewACherry]

Interesting how they didn’t enforce curfews when white people we’re out protesting a global pandemic with AR-15’s a few weeks ago

[Dr. Shannon Hibbard @Shann0nMars]

#BlackLivesMatter #DnDcharacter

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

The officers who murdered Breonna Taylor nearly three months ago still have not been charged. We can’t forget about Black women in our quest for justice.

[AJ ❄️ @Levance_]

Know the difference.

[Dr. Matt Bourassa @DocBourassa]

I help us know where our space stuff is, where it will be, and keep it where it should be.

That was fun!

[Kristen Facciol @kfacciol]

I move large human like computer run things to catch space stuff and do other cool space stuff. 🤖🦾

(Ok that was not easy!)