Aníbal Guerrero
Hernandez
Aerospace Engineer · AI Enthusiast
GNC Engineer at Rocket Lab and founder of Reflektion, an AI mental wellness companion. Previously researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and co-lead at WARR Rocketry. Passionate about autonomous navigation, space missions, and the intersection of aerospace and AI.
Experience
Auckland, New Zealand
Trajectory optimization and mission design for Electron launches. 3DOF/6DOF analysis, Monte Carlo simulations, and Mission Control operations.
tryreflektion.com
Building an AI mental wellness companion with voice and text conversations, long-term memory, structured insights, and multi-language support.
Munich, Germany
Computer vision pipeline for autonomous asteroid navigation and 3D reconstruction. IEEE Aerospace Conference 2025 Track Best Paper.
Munich, Germany
Led Europe's first student-developed staged rocket. Developed WSPR 6-DOF simulation tool. 3rd place at Spaceport America Cup 2024.
London, UK
Market research and techno-economic feasibility studies for near-Earth asteroid mining operations.
Selected Projects
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Rocket Lab: Operational Electron Missions
GNC and mission design on dedicated Electron launches for JAXA, Synspective (StriX-6), and Open Cosmos—including trajectory work, Monte Carlo analysis, and Mission Control operations.
EX-1E: Two-Stage Rocket Launch at SAC24
Co-led the development of EX-1E, a groundbreaking two-stage rocket that achieved historic success at the 2024 Spaceport America Cup.
Development and Control of a Rocket Hopper Demonstrator
Developed and implemented an advanced reinforcement learning control system for a cold gas-powered vertical takeoff and landing demonstrator.
WSPR (WESP's Predictive Rocketry Tool)
Advanced 6-DOF trajectory simulation software for WARR Rocketry's WESP team.
Robust 3D Asteroid Reconstruction from Monocular Sequences (Master Thesis)
Developed a sophisticated Computer Vision pipeline for asteroid navigation and 3D model reconstruction of asteroids.
Synthetic Asteroid Dataset Generation (Semesterarbeit)
Developed data generation pipeline for asteroid exploration enhancing OAISYS.
CFD Flow Field Prediction using CNNs
Deep learning application for autoregressive prediction of CFD flow fields.
Education
M.Sc. Aerospace · Space Engineering & Computer Science
B.Eng. Aerospace Engineering · Aerospace Science & Technologies