Bob Oberto is a Senior Engineer at The Aerospace Corporation with 35 years of spacecraft systems engineering experience. He was a Project Manager and Spacecraft Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he served in a number of roles including the Principal Investigator of the NASA Exploration Design Team, a Multi-NASA center design activity.  Bob was the Project Manager of the JPL Design Teams where he managed all concurrent design team activities at JPL.  He also led JPL’s Advanced Concept Design Team (Team-X) for several years where he developed over 350 space exploration concepts. Bob was the Project Manager of the Interferometer Program Experiment II that flew on board the Space Shuttle.  He has been involved in all aspects of robotic interplanetary exploration, from mission concept development to interplanetary flight operations. He worked with NASA to develop the first Hosted Payload Interface Guide providing relevant experience for the UPIC review.