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Sandip Aghav

Sandip Aghav

Vice President — Inertial Navigation; aerospace navigation researcher

Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Joined February 2026
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Summary

Practitioner and product leader in inertial navigation: Sandip serves in senior leadership at Aeron Systems focused on strategy and business operations for the company's inertial navigation business; his work ties product management, customer deployments and field-proven INS product families (MEMS and FOG) to aerospace and defence use cases. aeronsystems+2
Academic researcher in GNSS/INS and orbit determination: He completed doctoral research on GPS-based satellite tracking and autonomous orbit determination, producing conference and journal papers that compare least-squares and EKF approaches for onboard LEO orbit estimation. ieee+2
Bridges research and applied systems: his history includes university-led satellite ground-station work (ANUSAT) and industrial R&D, showing experience moving from hands-on academic projects to engineering and productisation of resilient navigation systems for real-world high-dynamics platforms. punemirror+1
Author and contributor to navigation literature and industry guidance: he has authored peer-reviewed technical papers on orbit determination and GNSS/INS methods and has published longer-form industry-facing articles on resilient navigation for unmanned systems. google+1

Work

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Writing

Simplified Orbit Determination Algorithm for Low Earth Orbit Satellites Using Spaceborne GPS Navigation Sensor

January 1, 2014

Journal paper (Artificial Satellites, 2014) presenting a simplified orbit determination algorithm based on GPS navigation solutions and Runge-Kutta propagation, comparing least-squares and EKF methods for onboard applications.

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Use of spaceborne GPS Navigation sensor for autonomous LEO orbit determination

January 1, 2012

Conference paper describing a low-computation algorithm for autonomous Low Earth Orbit (LEO) orbit determination using spaceborne GPS navigation sensor data, comparing least-squares and Extended Kalman Filter approaches and proposing EKF for faster convergence.

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Development of On-Board Orbit Determination System for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Receiver

January 1, 2011

Proceedings paper describing development efforts for onboard orbit determination using GNSS receivers for LEO satellites (Geospatial World Forum contribution).

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UGVs: The Unleashed Force Multiplier for Land Dominance

A long-form article discussing resilience and navigation for Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs), emphasising resilient INS, GNSS denial mitigation and payload integration for military UGV applications (published on Aeron Systems site).

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