Wayne Cannon, Ph.D.

Director, Space Tracking and Navigation

Wayne Cannon is Director of Thoth Technology’s Space Tracking and Navigation (STN) Division and is a veteran of 33 years experience in the field of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) systems and applications. Dr. Cannon has a PhD in Geophysics and Astronomy from the University of British Columbia and has conducted research with a wide range of national and international collaborators at various venues, including the California Institute of Technology, NASA/JPL, and York University, where he is a member of the department of Physics and Astronomy and teaches in the Space Engineering program.

Dr. Cannon founded the Space Geodynamics Laboratory (SGL) in 1988 and has served as Lab Director for the past sixteen years. SGL has collaborated with the Geodetic Survey Division of NRCan, CSA, and the Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics in developing the S2 VLBI system. Dr. Cannon has used the 46 m antenna of the Algonquin Radio Observatory (ARO) for VLBI tracking of interplanetary probes, including the Japanese Nazomi Mars spacecraft, as well as bi-static radar observations of geostationary targets. Dr. Cannon recently served on the Board of Directors of the International VLBI Service (IVS) and is a member of the Radioastron International Science Committee (RISC) of the Russian-led Radioastron space VLBI mission.