Orion Moves One Step Closer to Launch
January 16, 2021: NASA has officially transferred ownership of the Artemis I Orion spacecraft to the Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) group for final preparations for launch. The transfer marks the completion of the assembly of spacecraft, which first began at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in 2015. On January 14, Orion was unloaded from its assembly stand in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center where [...]
Journal Article Accepted for Publication
Congratulations to Odyssey Engineers Denise Brown and James Pogemiller, whose article "Efficient, High-Fidelity Modeling and Simulation of Global Navigation Satellite System Constellations" was recently accepted for publication in the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems! The article, currently in Advance, [...]
Crazy Hat Day
July 14, 2021: Odyssey is a small company, so when you're working here you won't always be doing the same thing day in, day out. People wear a lot of different hats! This was particularly noticeable on our recent "Crazy [...]
NASA Awards SpaceX to Continue Developing Human Lander
April 16, 2021: Congratulations to SpaceX on being selected by NASA to continue development of their commercial human lander as part of the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP-2) Program! The human lander will join the Space Launch System, [...]
2020 Engineer of the Year
April 8, 2021: Chris Couch was recognized today as Odyssey Space Research’s Engineer of the Year for 2020! The award acknowledges Chris's outstanding leadership, technical achievement, and for fostering growth in younger staff on the MEIT Space Test Program. Chris's [...]
HTV Undocks from ISS for the Last Time
August 8, 2020: Today marks the retirement of the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV). Between 2009 to 2020, HTV successfully completed 9 resupply missions to the International Space Station. The vehicle, also known as Kounotori or ‘the white stork’ after the [...]
Odyssey Wins a Phase I NASA Small Business Innovative Research Award
2020 NASA SBIR Phase I award: "Autonomous Optical Navigation and Targeting for Operations in NRHO". Principal investigator: Dr. Franceso de Dilectis. July 6, 2020: Odyssey has won a Phase I SBIR to implement state of the art optical navigation and [...]