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Matthew Cooper

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Matthew “Coop” Cooper is an aerospace engineer on Orion’s space domain awareness team. Matt also works with both civilian and defense-related ground- and space-based optical systems. Matt attended the University of North Alabama and received a dual degree in physics and mathematics with a minor in chemistry, and a Ph.D. in applied physics from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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Mar 23, 2026 ∙ 3 min
Strategic stargazing: Revolutionizing how we position instruments to study Earth's polar atmosphere
Matthew Cooper, Ph.D., Aerospace Engineer   When looking up at the night sky, most of us see stars and constellations. At Orion, we see features invisible to the naked eye—features which provide crucial data to our evolving understanding of Earth's polar upper atmosphere. The Earth's polar atmosphere is a beautiful, chaotic mess of slow-moving neutral and charged particles combined with insanely fast-moving ions traveling along the Earth's magnetic field. The super-speed particles come from...
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