Dave Gooding

Co-founder & CTO, Foundational

I work on knowing exactly where things are in orbit.

Before this: instruments for the world's largest telescope, cameras for Earth-observation satellites, infrared detectors for ESA.

Now

Building Foundational. We use lasers to measure the distance to satellites and turn those measurements into orbits precise enough to act on.

A tri-static ground-based laser ranging method for precise satellite attitude determination P. Bartram, J. Fletcher, E. Schafer, L. Pieters, D. Gooding, H. Virdee 9th European Conference on Space Debris (ESA/ESOC), 2025 · arXiv
A new global laser ranging network for satellite and debris tracking H. Virdee, P. Bartram, E. Schafer, D. Gooding, J. Luis 73rd International Astronautical Congress, IAC-22-A6.1.4, 2022
HARMONI at ELT: characterizing spatial variations in transmission efficiency of volume phase holographic diffraction gratings D. Gooding, N. A. Thatte, E. Castillo Dominguez, E. Muslimov, M. Tecza, R. E. Meyer, F. Clarke, et al. Proc. SPIE 13100, 2024
A novel deployable telescope to facilitate a low-cost <1m GSD video rapid-revisit small satellite constellation D. Gooding, G. Richardson, A. Haslehurst, D. Smith, C. Saunders, G. Aglietti, R. Blows, J. Shore, K. Hampson, M. J. Booth International Conference on Space Optics (ICSO 2018), Proc. SPIE 11180, 2019