Professor Sandy (Alex) Antunes
Sandy (Alex)
Antunes,
Ph.D. is Assistant Professor, Capitol College
where he teaches courses in satellite operation and instrumentation.
Sandy authored
Surviving Orbit the DIY Way: Testing the Limits Your Satellite Can
and Must Match,
DIY Satellite Platforms: Building a Space-Ready General Base
Picosatellite for Any Mission, and
DIY Instruments for Amateur Space: Inventing Utility for Your
Spacecraft
Once it Achieves Orbit.
His articles include
The First Kickstarter Satellites,
Lego-style Vs Custom Shop CubeSat Construction,
Telstar, Tornados, And Telecasters,
Derating Off-the-shelf Parts So They Work,
Rockets, Asteroids, Gold Rushes And … Conferences?,
Swimming In The (astro) Pacific,
The Phantom Of The Laboratory,
Engineering Roleplaying,
Stars That Ring Like Bells,
Open Notebook Astronomy,
Science is Hard…,
Asperger’s Rule Processing, and
Zombies: The Safer Terrorists.
Read all his
Satellite Diaries articles and his The Sky by Dan articles.
His journal articles include
On the 3-D reconstruction of Coronal Mass Ejections using coronagraph
data,
Hybrid Reconstruction to Derive 3D Height-Time Evolution for Coronal
Mass Ejections,
Dynamical Parameters for AM 0644–741,
Projecting 3-D Simulations Into Pseudo Observations,
ASCA: An International Mission,
Astro-E’s Mission Independent Scheduling Suite,
A High Capacity Object Oriented Mission Scheduling System
for XTE,
ASCA observations of the coronal X-ray emission of Algol, and
A predictive model for space-based X-ray CCD degradation.
Sandy is also known as a game industry expert for the tabletop RPG
business.
Tabletop work is now an IP-rich environment also suitable for paper
prototyping for computer and mobile gaming. In addition, he brings
experience from the LARP segment of gaming to produce training and
simulation exercises within the context of work sites, projects such as
Destination Imagination, and to make the world a more interesting place.
Sandy cofounded the top-ranked RPG site rpg.net, built the first online
ebook mall for RPGs, and has served twice as executive director for the
board of the not-for-profit Game Publishers Association.
His published work includes RPG adventures, rulebooks, encyclopedias,
games
for children, and far too many essays about game design and the
industry. He also consults for startup game ventures.
Read his over
13 years of gaming columns.
Learn about his PDF products available at
DriveThruRPG.
Sandy earned his BS in Astronomy and Physics at Boston University in
1989. He earned his MS in Astrophysics at Penn State in 1992. He
earned his Ph.D. in Computational Astrophysics at George Mason
University in 2005.
Listen to his
365 Days of Astronomy podcasts.
Read
Sandy Antunes: Building Satellites to Listen to Space.
Read his
LinkedIn profile,
his
O’Reilly Media profile, and his
Wikipedia profile.