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Mr. Mellon brings over 30 years of research and development
experience to the managment of astronomical telescope and
custom optomechanical laser systems development, including 10
years as an engineer and project manager at Lockheed Martin
Astronautics in Denver.
At Equinox, he has directed projects to produce the twin VYSOS
robotic telescopes for the U. of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
and the Ruhr Universitat Bochum as well as the 30-inch
Cassegrain-Coude telescope for the U. of Denver. He is currently
completing a 36-inch telescope for the U. of Hawaii-Hilo, slated
for installation at Mauna Kea in early 2006. While at EI, he has
also managed projects to produce an imaging LIDAR system for the
U.S. Army STRICOM and a missle tracking/laser illumination telescope
for Lockheed Martin. His other recent projects include a truck
mounted Daylight Telescope system for Logicon/USAF at Kirtland AFB,
NM.
At Lockheed Martin, he was the Principal Investigator for the
Advanced Laser Communications IR&D project that established
angular pointing stabilization performance of 59nrad for an
inertially stabilized space communications data transceiver
telescope. He also managed classified projects in support of
the Space Based Laser program.
Prior to his association with Lockheed Martin, Mr. Mellon was
an engineer and project manager at Ball Aerospace Systems
Division, wher he ran the ARIS image intensified sensor program
for the U.S. Navy/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory. He also performed optical engineering during the
integration of the IRAS telescope and the High Resolution
Spectrograph for the Hubble Space Telescope.
During his 11 years of USAF military service, he served as
Director of the Developmental Optics Facility at the Air Force
Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland AFB, NM and was associated with
early developments in precision laser guided munitions technology
at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. He holds degrees in Physics and
Mathematics from the University of Minnesota.
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