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 [...]
HTV Undocks from ISS for the Last Time
August 8, 2020: Today marks the retirement of the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV). Between 2009 to 2020, HTV successfully completed 9 resupply missions to the International Space Station. The vehicle, also known as Kounotori or ‘the white stork’ after the [...]
Odyssey Wins a Phase I NASA Small Business Innovative Research Award
2020 NASA SBIR Phase I award: "Autonomous Optical Navigation and Targeting for Operations in NRHO". Principal investigator: Dr. Franceso de Dilectis. July 6, 2020: Odyssey has won a Phase I SBIR to implement state of the art optical navigation and [...]
Odyssey Part of Northrop Grumman’s HALO Development Team
June 10, 2020: Odyssey is excited to be part of the Northrop Grumman team for the design and development of the Habitation And Logistics Outpost (HALO) for the Gateway, an essential part of NASA's Artemis lunar exploration program! (See the [...]
Odyssey Remains Resolute in Challenging Times
April 20, 2020: Amongst the turmoil of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Odysseyians have continued carrying on their mission of advancing human space flight. As a company, Odyssey has taken several steps to help the community persevere, including providing donation matching to [...]
Astronaut Randy Bresnik Visits Orion BFS Lab
March 2, 2020: The Orion Backup Flight Software (BFS) team was visited last week by astronaut Randy Bresnik. Bresnik discussed the importance of BFS in ensuring the safety of our astronauts and the success of the Artemis program. The Backup [...]
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 [...]