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Successful End To ATV-1 "Jules Verne" Mission September 29, 2008: Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. congratulates the European Space Agency (ESA) on a successful first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) mission. Known as "Jules Verne," ATV-1 successfully re-entered the atmosphere today after undocking from the International Space Station (ISS) on September 5th. Future ATV flights are currently in the planning and development stages, with ATV-2 anticipated to occur in approximately 18 months. For more information go to: http://www.esa.int/esaMI/ATV/index.html.

April 3, 2008: The European Space Agency's first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), known as "Jules Verne," has successfully docked to the International Space Station (ISS). While in free-flight, the ATV performed several days of demonstrations requiring coordination between ESA, NASA, and Russian engineering & operations teams; these demonstrations were done to gain confidence in the safety of the ATV's rendezvous and proximity operations systems before performing the final approach to ISS. Upon successfully fulfilling all demonstration objectives, the ATV was given the "GO" to fly under automatic control to dock to the aft port of "Zvezda", the ISS Service Module. Jules Verne’s docking probe was captured by Zvezda at 14:45 GMT, and docking was completed at 14:52 GMT. Congratulations to the entire ESA team! For more information go to: http://www.esa.int/esaMI/ATV/index.html.

Lunar Lander Design Study Announcement March 17, 2008: NASA has awarded contracts for independent evaluation of NASA's current in-house design concept for a lunar lander. Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. is proud to be the recipient of one of these contracts. The recommendations from this design study will be used by NASA to increase the technical maturity of the lunar lander design in preparation for vehicle requirements development. For more information, go to the NASA press release: NASA Altair BAA Selection.

Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Demonstration Announcement February 19, 2008: NASA has announced the results of the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) contract re-award competition. Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. is proud to be part of the winning Orbital Sciences Corporation team. For more information on Orbital Sciences and the "Cygnus" COTS vehicle, go to: http://www.orbital.com.

January 27-31, 2008: Two Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. (OSR) engineers, Kevin Choi, Ph.D. and Blair Thompson, Ph.D., have presented their research at the 2008 AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting in Galveston, Texas. The first paper, "Adaptive Measurement Covariance for Multi-Input Kalman Filter-based Spacecraft Navigation" by Choi and Thompson (paper AAS 08-110), was a preliminary study into using all available redundant sensor measurements. Normally, data is selected from only one of a suite of identical sensors, while good data from the other functioning sensors is ignored. The presented study indicates improved performance may be achieved by incorporating the good data from the redundant sensors. The second paper, "Validation of Gravity Acceleration and Torque Algorithms for Astrodynamics" by Thompson, fellow OSR engineer David Hammen, and others (paper AAS 08-205), presented the technique developed to validate the spherical harmonic gravity acceleration and torque algorithms of the Johnson Space Center Engineering Orbital Dynamics (JEOD) simulation software. The technique can be applied to the validation of any general spherical harmonic gravity algorithm use for astrodynamics engineering or space mission operations, and is not restricted to Earth gravity algorithms. Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. congratulates these engineers for a successful conference and a job well done.

January 16, 2008: NEPTEC USA has awarded a subcontract to Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. to provide support on a small business technology research and planning project.

Commercial Space Tourism Project Collaboration Announcement December 3, 2007: Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. and the Aerospace Research and Technology Center (CTAE, Centre Tecnològic per a la Indústria Aeronàutica i de l´Espai) are participating in a commercial space tourism project. Barcelona, Spain-based CTAE is a non-profit, private foundation that provides technology services in the aerospace sector. Odyssey and CTAE are performing a technology assessment for a Spanish business venture seeking to develop a habitable Earth-orbiting destination for private customers. Odyssey, teamed with CTAE and other companies on this project, is providing expertise in orbital and mission analysis. For more information on CTAE, visit: http://www.ctae.org.

November 16, 2007: Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. was awarded a Phase I SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) contract for development of a "Wiki-Based Data and Information Integration (WikiDI2) System." The WikiDI2 System is the only Wiki-based project management and team collaboration tool that provides site hosting services as well as installation packages to end-users for local implementation.

Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Demonstration Announcement October 2, 2006: Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. has joined the Rocketplane Kistler Inc. (RpK) Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) team. On August 18, 2006, RpK was named one of the two winning COTS teams by NASA. Odyssey's role will include: systems engineering and design support; operations development; guidance, navigation and control (GN&C) simulation and analysis; and software verification and validation. For more information on Rocketplane Kistler, go to: http://www.rocketplane.com and http://www.kistleraero.com. UPDATE October 18, 2007: NASA has announced the suspension of its COTS relationship with Rocketplane Kistler Inc.

	Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) Announcement August 31, 2006: NASA has announced the results of the "Orion" Crew Exploration Vehicle development contract competition. Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. is proud to be part of the winning Lockheed Martin team supporting NASA's Orion project. The Odyssey role will include support of the vehicle guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C), simulation development, and related analysis. For more on NASA's Orion crew vehicle, go to: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/orion and http://www.nasa.gov.
	Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Demonstration Announcement August 18, 2006: NASA has announced the results of the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration competition. Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. is proud to be part of one of the two COTS winning teams: Space Exploration Technologies -- or more commonly, SpaceX. Odyssey's role will include support of the "Dragon" vehicle guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) development, selected simulation and test-bed development, related analyses, systems engineering, and operations. For more information on SpaceX and the Dragon vehicle, go to: http://www.spacex.com.

October 17, 2005: Andrews Space has awarded a subcontract to Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. to perform guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) design and analysis of the Human & Robotic Technology "Small Tug" technology demonstration spacecraft.

May 20, 2005: Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. was awarded a Prime Contract to support the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division of the Engineering Directorate. This contract includes rendezvous, proximity operations, and capture analyses to support a variety of projects, such as free-flight integration of the International Space Station (ISS) visiting vehicles (the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV)), Constellation program-related simulation, analysis, and technology development, and other projects.

January 21, 2005: Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. was awarded a Phase I SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) contract to study "Automated Rendezvous and Docking Infrastructure to Support Commercial Space Development."

January 21, 2005: Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. was awarded a Phase I SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) contract to study "Fusion of Inertial Navigation and Imagery Data" for planetary navigation applications. November 13, 2004: Two Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. lead engineers, Brian Rishikof and David Strack, have been presented with Silver Snoopy awards by NASA astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore, under NASA's Space Flight Awareness program. The Silver Snoopy is awarded by the astronaut office to fewer than 1 percent of the workforce for contributions to safety and mission success. For more information, go to: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/sfa/snoopy.html.

October 4, 2004: MDA Houston has awarded a subcontract to Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. to provide simulation and analysis software for NASA in the rendezvous, proximity operations, and capture domain.

January 10, 2004: SAIC has awarded a subcontract to Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. for systems engineering support to NASA on the Orbital Space Plane (OSP) project. Odyssey's role includes performing independent assessment of competing OSP designs for NASA in the GN&C and mission analysis areas.

December 1, 2003: Honeywell has awarded a subcontract to Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C. to provide GN&C simulation development and ISS integration analysis support.

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