Odyssey Engineer Guest Lectures at West Point
September 16, 2015: Odyssey employee and Air Force Reservist Blair Thompson was recently invited to guest lecture at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. During his multi-day visit, Blair lectured on GPS navigation fundamentals to cadets, faculty, [...]
HTV-5 Successfully Reaches ISS!
August 24, 2015: The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) unmanned H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) successfully reached the International Space Station (ISS) this morning, its fifth such cargo mission. After a nominal launch from Tanegashima, Japan on August 19, HTV reached [...]
Odyssey Engineer Guest Lectures in Canberra, Australia
August 6, 2015: Blair Thompson, an Odyssey senior research engineer, is also a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and is currently the Vice Commandant of the Reserve National Security Space Institute (RNSSI) at Peterson Air Force Base, [...]
SpaceX Dragon Mission Successful!
May 21, 2015: SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft has completed its sixth Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Odyssey engineers supported from the Johnson Space Center Mission Control Complex as Dragon was released and departed from [...]
Odyssey Engineer Honored As Outstanding Alumnus
April 20, 2015: Odyssey engineer Matt Benson has been honored by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater as a recipient of this year's Outstanding Recent Alumnus Award. Given in recognition of his professional achievements, the award was conferred upon him at UWW's [...]
Dragon CRS-6 Successful Rendezvous
April 17, 2015: This morning, SpaceX's unmanned Dragon spacecraft successfully reached the International Space Station (ISS). This is the sixth mission under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract with NASA. After a nominal launch from Cape Canaveral on April 14 [...]