Odyssey-Supported Payload Flies on Blue Origin’s New Shepard Rocket
On October 13, Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle took off from the company's West Texas launch site. The launch prominently featured a payload from NASA's Safe and Precise Landing - Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) project to test lunar landing technologies. Since SPLICE began in 2017, Odyssey has supported SPLICE in a variety of roles, including: hardware in the loop simulation core Flight System (cFS) software development and integration flight hardware delivery and [...]
2020 Career Excellence Award
February 25, 2020: It’s unusual for events at Odyssey’s State of the Union to lead to a standing ovation and a few tears, but that’s exactly what happened at the 2020 State of the Union when Barb Ebadat was awarded [...]
NG-12 Exits the ISS
Jan 31, 2020: The Cygnus unmanned cargo vehicle has successfully completed its twelfth mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission, called NG-12, was conducted for NASA under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract. Odyssey engineers supported from the [...]
Completed Tests bring Commercial Crew Closer to the Finish Line
January 27, 2020: With the first launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on December 20th, 2019 and SpaceX’s In-flight Abort Test of its Crewed Dragon capsule two significant milestones have been passed on the road to launching American astronauts from US soil to [...]
SpX-19 Leaves the ISS
January 7th, 2020: The unmanned Dragon cargo resupply vehicle successfully completed its nineteenth mission to the International Space Station (ISS) today. Odyssey engineers supported from the Johnson Space Center Mission Control Complex as SpaceX's Dragon departed ISS, starting with release [...]
Happy New Year!
January 1, 2020: Happy New Year from Odyssey Space Research! We are looking forward to an exciting 2020 filled with both new and continuing projects. Interested in tackling them with us? Visit our Careers page to see current job openings. [...]
New Odyssey Employees Tour NASA JSC
December 17, 2019: Several of the fresher faces at Odyssey had the opportunity to tour exciting locations at NASA Johnson Space Center this week, including Mission Control, the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility, and the Saturn V rocket at Rocket Park. [...]