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| birth_place = Soviet Union| death_date = | death_place = | nationality = American| other_names = | known_for = | education = Moscow Institute of Physics and TechnologyRussian Space Research Institute| website = Astronauticsnow }}Mike Gruntman is a Russian-American physicist, space engineer, and author. He is professor of astronautics and aerospace engineering at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California (USC).

Biography

Born in the USSR, Gruntman grew up as a child at the Soviet Tyuratam Missile Test Range, also known as Baikonur Cosmodrome, in the late 1950s and early 1960s.{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}}After graduating from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a master's degree in physics, he went on to receive his Ph.D. (1984) in physics from the Space Research Institute (IKI ИКИ) of the USSR Academy of Sciences.THESIS, Грунтман, Михаил Александрович – Обоснование и разработка методов детектирования потоков нейтральных частиц в межпланетном пространстве : диссертация ... кандидата физико-математических наук : 01.04.01 – Search RSL,weblink search.rsl.ru, 1983, Gruntman came to IKI as a student in 1973 and then worked there from 1977 on as a research fellow.BOOK, Gruntman, Mike, Stern, David Peter, Oral history interview with Mike Gruntman, 2005, 881394327, From 1987 to 1990 he worked as a research fellow in the Institute for Problems in Mechanics (IPM) of the USSR Academy of Sciences.BOOK, Gruntman, M., Obratnyi Otshchet 3 (Reverse Countdown...3. Fifty years of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences), 2015, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 978-5-9903101-3-1, 226–261,weblink ru, Fifteen Years in IKI: Microchannel Plates, Position-Sensitive Detectors, and Energetic Neutral Atoms, In March 1990 he joined USC in Los Angeles, California as research scientist and became professor in 1993.{{Failed verification|date=December 2018}}In IKI and IPM, Gruntman worked on position-sensitive detectors on the basis of the microchannel platesJOURNAL, Gruntman, Mike, Position-sensitive detectors based on microchannel plates, 27, 1, Instruments and Experimental Techniques, 1984, 1–19,weblink 0020-4412, and techniques for the detection of energetic neutral atoms (ENA imaging) in space.JOURNAL, 10.1063/1.1148389, Energetic neutral atom imaging of space plasmasjournal=Review of Scientific Instruments, 68, 10, 3617–3656, 1997,weblinkbibcode = 1997RScI...68.3617G, Gruntman, M. A., Roelof, E. C., Mitchell, D. G., Fahr, H.-J., Funsten, H. O., and McComas, D. J., “Energetic Neutral Atom Imaging of the Heliospheric Boundary Region,” J. Geophys. Res.106(A8), 15,767–15,758 (2001).JOURNAL, ENA Imaging: Seeing the Invisible, Brandt, P.C., Mitchell, D.G., Roelof, E.C., Krimigis, S.M., Paranicas, C.P., Mauk, B.H., Saur, J., DeMajistre, R., Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, 2005, 26, 2, 143–155,weblink 2018-12-02,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121104012357weblink">weblink 2012-11-04, dead, Later he participated in ENA experiments on the NASA IMAGE,JOURNAL, Pollock, C.J., Asamura, K., Baldonado, J., Balkey, M.M., Barker, P., Burch, J.L., Korpela, E.J., Cravens, J., Dirks, G., Fok, M.-C., Funsten, H.O., Grande, M., Gruntman, M., Hanley, J., Jahn, J.-M., Jenkins, M., Lampton, M., Marckwordt, M., McComas, D.J., Mukai, T., Penegor, G., Pope, S., Ritzau, S., Schattenburg, M.L., Scime, E., Skoug, R., Spurgeon, W., Stecklein, T., Storms, S., Urdiales, C., Valek, P., van Beek, J.T.M., Weidner, S.E., Wüest, M., Young, M.K., Zinsmeyer, C., Medium energy neutral atom (MENA) imager for the IMAGE mission, Space Science Reviews, 2000, 91, 1/2, 113–154, 10.1023/A:1005259324933, 2000SSRv...91..113P, 16341054, JOURNAL, Pollock, C. J., Asamura, K., Balkey, M. M., Burch, J. L., Funsten, H. O., Grande, M., Gruntman, M., Henderson, M., Jahn, J.-M., Lampton, M., Liemohn, M. W., McComas, D. J., Mukai, T., Ritzau, S., Schattenburg, M. L., Scime, E., Skoug, R., Valek, P., Wüest, M., First medium energy neutral atom (MENA) Images of Earth's magnetosphere during substorm and storm-time, Geophysical Research Letters, 15 March 2001, 28, 6, 1147–1150, 10.1029/2000GL012641, 2001GeoRL..28.1147P, 1604349, TWINSWEB, NASA TWINS Team,weblink and IBEXWEB, IBEX Team and Impact,weblink missions.Gruntman's scholarly publicationsWEB,weblink Mike Gruntman, span across astronautics, space mission and spacecraft design, rocketry and spacecraft propulsion, space instrumentation and sensors, solar system galactic frontier, heliospheric and magnetospheric physics, space plasmas and environment, orbital debris, particle and photon analyzers and detector systems, space education, and space and rocket history.WEB,weblink Profile: Mike Gruntman, ResearchGate, WEB,weblink Mike Gruntman - Academia.edu, WEB,weblink ORCID,

Education and outreach

Gruntman has been advocating creation of pure space engineering academic units as an alternative to space degree programs in aerospace departments combining aeronautics and astronautics.BOOK, 10.2514/6.2007-6042, 978-1-62410-016-1, The Time for Academic Departments in Astronautical Engineering, AIAA SPACE 2007 Conference & Exposition, 2007, Gruntman, Mike, JOURNAL, Gruntman, Mike, Advanced degrees in astronautical engineering for the space industry, Acta Astronautica, October 2014, 103, 92–105, 10.1016/j.actaastro.2014.06.016, 2014AcAau.103...92G, free, JOURNAL, Gruntman, Mike, Master of Science Degree in Astronautical Engineering Through Distance Learning, International Astronautical Congress, 2018, IAC-18-E1-4-11,weblink Bremen Germany, He served as the founding chairman, 2004–2007, of such an independent academic unit at USC, currently the Department of Astronautical Engineering.WEB, USC Viterbi {{!, Department of Astronautical Engineering |url=https://astronautics.usc.edu/ |website=USC Viterbi {{!}} Department of Astronautical Engineering}} He chairs the department again from 2016 to 2019.Gruntman also produces educational short videos on satellite orbits and related topics which has attracted more than a million viewers on YouTube.WEB, Astronauticsnow Mike Gruntman's Youtube Channel, YouTube,weblink He is a frequent guest speaker on The Space Show.WEB,weblink Dr. Mike Gruntman | the Space Show,

History

Gruntman has authored two books on history of rocketry and space technology, published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Blazing the Trail. The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry, published in 2004,BOOK, Gruntman, Mike, 2004, Blazing the Trail: The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry,weblink Reston, VA, AIAA, 326, 978-1-56347-705-8, received the 2006 Luigi G. Napolitano Award from the International Academy of Astronautics. Intercept 1961: The Birth of Soviet Missile Defense (2015)WEB, New Book Focuses on Birth of Soviet Union's Air and Missile Defense Systems : The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,weblink www.aiaa.org, covers the history of the Soviet air defense and missile defense.WEB, Intercept 1961 was featured on Secure Freedom Radio, center for security policy 2015,weblink center for security policy, 2015-10-06, He also published a book about pioneers of space Robert Esnault-Pelterie and Ary Sternfeld and the words astronautics and cosmonautics which they had respectively introduced in the language of science and engineering.BOOK, From astronautics to cosmonautics, Booksurge, 978-1-4196-7085-5, 2007, Gruntman is also the author of "Enemy Amongst Trojans: A Soviet Spy at USC"BOOK, Gruntman, Mike, Enemy amongst Trojans : a Soviet spy at USC, Figueroa Press, 978-1-932800-74-6, 2010, detailing a Soviet espionage operation in the United States when GRU officer Ignacy Witczak (Litvin) operated under a cover of a student and then instructor at the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1940s.JOURNAL, Gruntman, M., Studies in Intelligence, Journal of the American Intelligence Professional (Declassified), Dec 2015, 59, 5, 74,weblinkweblink dead, March 5, 2016, MAGAZINE, Enemy Amongst Trojans: Telling the story of a USC instructor—and Soviet spy,weblink USC Viterbi Engineer Spring 2011, USC, 2011, 13,

List of books published

• BOOK, Gruntman, Mike, Blazing the trail : the early history of spacecraft and rocketry, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Reston, Va., 2004, 978-1-60086-872-6, 774285730,
• BOOK, Gruntman, Mike, 2, Intercept 1961 : the birth of Soviet missile defense, Reston, VA, 2015, 978-1-62410-350-6, 911134979,
• BOOK, Gruntman, Mike, 2, Enemy amongst Trojans : a Soviet spy at USC, Figueroa Press, Los Angeles, 2010, 978-1-932800-74-6, 690920515,
• BOOK, Gruntman, Mike, 2, From astronautics to cosmonautics, Booksurge, North Charleston, S.C., 2007, 978-1-4196-7085-5, 156950339,
• BOOK, Gruntman, Mike, 2, My fifteen years at IKI, the Space Research Institute : position-sensitive detectors and energetic neutral atoms behind the Iron Curtain, Interstellar Trail Press, 2022, 979-8-9856687-0-4, 1310323554,
• BOOK, Gruntman, Mike, Fundamentals of space missions : problems with solutions, 2022, Interstellar Trail Press, 979-8-9856687-4-2,

Honors and awards

• 2000, 2001, 2011 NASA Group Achievement Award 2006 Luigi G. Napolitano Award from the International Academy of Astronautics
• 2001 – 2003, Editorial board member, Review of Scientific Instruments, American Institute of Physics (AIP) WEB, Gruntman, M, AIP citation,weblink aip.scitation.org,
• Member (Academician) of the International Academy of Astronautics
• Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics(AIAA)

References

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External links

• Gruntman's web page at www.astronauticsnow.com
• Gruntman's USC Faculty Page

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