New Shepard Mission NS-17 Launches NASA Payload
August 26th, 2021: Blue Origin’s most recent New Shepard rocket launch, NS-17, had numerous scientific and research payloads aboard. Eleven of these payloads are NASA-supported, but one payload in particular had Odyssey Space Research support as well. The Deorbit, Descent, and Landing (DDL) Sensor is a science experiment created by NASA JSC’s Safe and Precise Landing - Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) project, which several OSR employees support. This payload is mounted externally [...]
Odyssey Boulder – Grand Opening
It’s official! Today we celebrated the Grand Opening of our Boulder, CO office, almost exactly 1000 miles away from our headquarters in Houston, TX. This new office helps us collaborate more efficiently with our Colorado-based customers, which includes Sierra Space, [...]
Odyssey to Implement Dream Chaser Flight Software
September 8, 2021: Odyssey has been engaged by Sierra Space to implement the flight software for the uncrewed Dream Chaser vehicle as part of NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS2) program. Dream Chaser is a spaceplane that will transport cargo [...]
Odyssey at Fall 2021 Career Fairs
September 7, 2021: It’s career fair season once again! Odyssey recruiters will be at several universities this fall. Come visit us at any one of the following fairs to hear about the exciting ways that Odyssey is helping advance the [...]
SpX-23 Docks with ISS
August 30, 2021: After a successful pre-dawn launch from Kennedy Space Center on August 29, SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon 2 capsule spent a day and a half in transit before autonomously docking with the ISS at 14:30 UTC on August 30th. [...]
Odyssey Bids Farewell to Summer Interns
August 13, 2021: As the new school year approaches, Odyssey’s summer interns must head back to their studies. We have now had the pleasure of hosting both of these outstanding young engineers for two summers each, in which they have [...]
Odyssey Engineers Play Key Role in ISS Recovery
July 29, 2021: Just 2 hours and 16 minutes after docking of the Russian Nauka module to the ISS, unplanned firings of thrusters on the module caused the ISS attitude control system to stop maintaining orientation in an event called [...]