Recent Staff Experience
Though we have experience going back to the mid 1970s, what really counts is our recent experience. During the past ten years our staff experience includes:
Earth-Orbiting Spacecraft Missions
- Science microspacecraft (design, engineering, testing)
- Student-built small spacecraft (design, engineering, testing)
- Technology-demonstration missions (design)
Deep-Space Missions
- Private Mars missions (TT&C architecture, project review and engineering)
- Mars 2003 lander (electrical ground support equipment design, engineering)
- 2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter proposal support
- Commercial lunar missions (system architecting/engineering, prototyping)
- Mars science micro-missions (system design, engineering)
- Commercial asteroid missions (system architecting/engineering)
- New Millennium Deep Space 1 project (system design, engineering)
- Mars mission imaging instruments (design, engineering, assembly, test)
- AsiaSat-3/HGS-1 salvage mission (mission architecting)
- Technology demonstration missions (design)
- New Millennium Program (program architecting)
Launch Services
- Live onboard video systems for rockets and spacecraft (RocketCam™)
- Launch system avionics (architecting, engineering)
- Primary payload interface definition
- Secondary payload launch services (system design, engineering)
Other
- Astronomical and specialized imaging instruments/sensors (design, engineering, assembly, test)
- Aircraft-based, balloon-borne and ship-based imaging systems (Rocketcam™)
- Autonomous Antarctic science stations (design, engineering, assembly, test)
- Technical consulting on space-themed movie treatments/scripts
- Financial consulting for space-themed businesses
- Teaching space systems design and engineering
- Teaching business accounting and ethics
