Brendan Quine, D.Phil. (Oxon.), P.Eng.

Technical Director, Chair of the Board

Brendan Quine is Technical Director, Chair, and Co-founder of Thoth Technology. Dr. Quine has twenty years experience in the space industry. He is also Director of Space Engineering at York University. 

Dr. Quine’s specialist capabilities include spacecraft-systems development, planetary atmospheres, and estimation theory. He is principal investigator for the commercially led Northern Light and Argus missions, co-investigator for the CSA MANTRA balloon program, and was responsible for the development of the test instrumentation for SCISAT-1 at the University of Toronto. Dr. Quine is also involved with MOPITT on-board NASA’s Terra spacecraft, and has assisted in the analysis of in-flight performance and instrument-anomaly resolution. He is a registered professional Engineer of Ontario.

Dr. Quine previously worked for nine years for the European spacecraft manufacturer EADS Astrium Ltd. and is experienced with all phases of spacecraft design and manufacture. He has worked on Astrium’s cryogenic cooler program and on the development of navigation and propulsions systems for spacecraft, including SOHO, XMM, INTEGRAL, and CLUSTER. During his doctoral research at the University of Oxford, he developed and patented an autonomous star tracker for attitude determination and spacecraft navigation, recently launched on the European spacecraft, PROBA.