Services
Ground Data Systems
- Our experience in designing ground data systems includes supporting 15 different instruments that operated in deep space, ranging from cameras (including those manufactured by Malin Space Science Systems) to spectrometers and LIDARs.
- Let our architecture normalize all of your data into automatically documented, configuration managed, consistent, versioned, and scriptable repositories.
- We'll help you interface with heritage systems like FEDS, and Design America's ASIST, and many others.
Mission Design & Analysis
- Our team has a long history designing mission concepts, particularly making use of Lagrange transfer orbits to make the "hard to reach" corners of our solar system more accessible.
- Use our vast experience to work with your team on preliminary mission design, exploring different paths to reach your target.
- Launch window analysis and backup trajectory design to help demonstrate your missions resilience to launch schedule slippage.
- Let us work with your team to help develop the concept of Operations for your mission.
- We specialize in asteroid proximity operations including site specific characterization for sample collection.
- Attitude analysis to help determine the suitability and efficacy of the different modes required by your mission for success.
SPICE Kernel Management
- Instead of re-inventing the wheel, leverage our experience to integrate consistent, mission-wide, kernel management.
- Use our shared SPICE kernel management system for your entire mission to share.
- We'll analyze kernels for coverage gaps as well as broken links to spacecraft, sensors, and bodies.
- Let your entire team access your kernels with rsync, webapi, or remote mounts for quick and easily analysis.
- Categorize and prioritize your kernels to avoid costly confusion.
- Spend less time managing kernels and more time dreaming about your mission.
Services
- Let us help. We'll bring our experience to your mission.
- Code reviews of any of your software, from flight to processing.
- Design and implementation of flight-ready databases.
- Configuration Management systems to handle everything from source code to downlink through all levels of processing.
- Systems engineering — let us help you set up requirements that actually work.
- Integration of V&V in to the rest of your system.
- Attend review committees covering any part of your system.
Sanford Selznick
Chief Software Architect
Sanford Selznick has over 38 years of experience, a Master's in Computer Science, 11 years as a biomedical researcher, 27 years developing software for spaceflight, 26 years of profitable business experience, and 10 years as Science Data Processing Lead for the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample-return mission. Sanford's experience also spans over developing the ground data system for components of the Mars Odyssey and Mars Phoenix Lander planetary exploration missions.
Carl Hergenrother
Chief Scientist
As an observational astronomer, Carl has over 32 years of experience in the study of asteroids, comets and meteors for the Catalina Sky Survey, Minor Planet Center, other NASA funded programs, and citizen science organizations. In addition, Carl has over 21 years of experience on the OSIRIS-REx mission where he contributed to mission science, design, and observation planning.
John Kidd
Chief Aerospace Engineer
As an aerospace systems engineer with 14 years of experience on the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission planning science observations with STK as the Senior Science Operations Planning Engineer, over 17 years of experience designing mission concepts with STK and GMAT, and 12 years experience developing software to support both of capacities.