Kim Aaronb

Kim Aaron is the SIM Flight System Architect. He has worked on the SIM project for almost five years. During his 16-year tenure at JPL, he has been involved in the conceptual design phase of about thirty different space missions. On a recent project, he designed and flight-qualified a vibration isolation system to operate at 2 kelvin for a superfluid helium experiment. Earlier, he was responsible for hardware design, fabrication and assembly of portions of the Rocky 4 microrover, predecessor to the Mars Pathfinder Sojourner rover. In 1985, he graduated from Caltech with a Master of Science and PhD in Aeronautics. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Honors Mechanical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1979.