Lander Wolfgang Schillinger Arana is a Master’s student in Aerospace Engineering. Lander earned his Bachelor’s in Aerospace Engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2025. As an undergraduate, Lander accumulated 4 years of research experience focused on a variety of topics, including propulsion system design optimization for small turbojets with the Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL), computational fluid dynamics on solid fuel ramjets with the Computational Combustion Lab (CCL), and development of star catalogs for spacecraft navigation with the Space Exploration and Analysis Lab (SEAL). Lander is currently working in the C3U Lab on satellite collision avoidance, expanding and improving upon Francesca Ferra’s Thesis on “Autonomous Decision Making for Low-Earth Orbit Collision Avoidance Manoeuvres under Fuel Conservation and Epistemic Uncertainty“, working with a reinforcement learning (RL) policy gradient algorithm with a continuous state, finite horizon Markov decision process (MDP) model to determine optimal Collision Avoidance Maneuver (CAM) policy that maximizes fuel savings while minimizing collision risk. His current interests include astrodynamics, orbital mechanics and spacecraft flight dynamics, spaceflight operations, and spacecraft attitude determination and control.