Glenn E. Reeves

Glenn E. Reeves is the recently retired Chief Engineer of the Europa Lander Advanced Development pre-project and, until retirement, was a member of JPL's Systems Engineering and Formulation Division. Glenn began his career in 1981 working on fault tolerant computing architectures at JPL. He subsequently developed the architecture and the software for electronic ground support equipment for the Magellan and Cassini projects. Glenn then spent much his career at JPL as the architect for, and leading teams in building, flight software for spacecraft destined for Mars. Starting with Mars Pathfinder in 1993 and continuing with the Mars Exploration Rover project and the Mars Science Laboratory, Glenn was the lead flight software engineer and a member of the core system engineering team on each project. The flight software architecture he developed for Mars Pathfinder mission has been adapted and used on all JPL Mars missions since 1993. Glenn's professional passion is the development of evolutionary and revolutionary spacecraft systems and spacecraft autonomy.