About Me

Yuta Nakajima is a Flight Project Systems Engineer of Engineering Test Satellite 9 project at JAXA. His expertise lies in the development of cutting-edge electric propulsion systems, specifically the 6kW Hall thruster system designed for 5-ton class satellites. In this role, he is responsible for the development of the 6kW power processing unit and integration test of hall thruster, flow controller and power processing unit. He also served as a MBSE practitioner applying MBSE to explore and solve business questions in actual flight project. He joined the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in 2009 as GNC engineer in the Small Demonstration Satellite-4(SDS-4) project. After successful launch and operations of SDS-4, he served as a system engineer at Systems Technology Unit to conduct Pre-Phase A and Phase A study of JAXA’s future missions. He was a Visiting Researcher in the Systems Modeling Methodology group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His research interests include the application of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to enhance the architecting process, mission concept exploration, systematic trade-off studies, behavior modeling and integration of descriptive and simulation models.