Sep 18, 2023 | Team
Westminster, CO – Advanced Space, LLC, a leading space tech solutions company, is pleased to announce the promotion of Thomas Gardner to Chief Engineer. Gardner, who has served as Director of Engineering for Advanced Space since 2016, will be responsible for the full scope of Advanced Space’s growing portfolio and our expanding engineering team. He also will be responsible for the department budget, meeting departmental metrics and goals, and making personnel decisions. His work will include reviewing and approving the work of the engineers who report to him along with attending design reviews, test plan reviews, design failure mode and effect analysis (DFMEA) meetings, and other critical design function meetings to make sure their people are following best practices and internal/industry standards. He will collaborate with the Project Managers to get the right people assigned to projects and get projects done and occasionally manage or supervise small projects that don’t require a Project Manager. (more…)
Sep 14, 2023 | Community, Team
Space research & technology development firm recognizes community organizations CEO and President Bradley Cheetham is involved with, continuing to elevate Colorado’s reputation in the space community
Westminster, CO – Advanced Space, a leading space tech solutions company, today affirmed its commitment to joining community-based organizations that elevate professionals and companies while helping young minds break into the world of aerospace. Bradley Cheetham, CEO and President of Advanced Space, has joined and is an active participant in several such organizations, as he hopes to advance the aerospace industry and cement Colorado’s budding reputation as a leader in the exploration and development of space. (more…)
Sep 12, 2023 | Papers & Presentations
As the seasons begin changing we look back on our summer highlights including one of our favorite conferences to share all our great work. If you didn’t have a chance to attend our talks in person at the Summer 2023 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, we’ve uploaded all our papers below! (more…)
Aug 30, 2023 | CAPSTONE Mission
Serving as an orbital pathfinder for the Gateway, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE™) spacecraft has operated successfully for almost 300 days. During that time, the CubeSat has demonstrated its key functions, entering and maintaining its unique orbit — a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) — and operating a peer-to-peer navigation technology that incorporates relative tracking between two vehicles. (more…)
Aug 29, 2023 | Machine Learning & AI, National Security
Westminster, CO – Advanced Space LLC., a leading space tech solutions company, is pleased to announce that an Advanced Space-led team has been chosen to apply Machine Learning (ML) capabilities to detect, track and characterize space debris for the IARPA Space Debris Identification and Tracking (SINTRA) program. (more…)
Aug 28, 2023 | Flight Dynamics, Partners & Partnerships
For several years now, Advanced Space has analyzed orbital dynamics for the Lunar Gateway. Supporting the Gateway’s Mission Design and Navigation (MDNAV) team, located primarily at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, these analyses have helped inform station requirements; develop concepts of operations; plan for contingencies; and assist with other planning activities. Our experience with operating the CAPSTONE™ mission in the unique near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) environment has enabled us to help NASA understand the best ways to operate spacecraft in that orbit. These results have been shared with the Gateway team and at industry conferences. (more…)
Aug 24, 2023 | Missions, Partners & Partnerships
Not so long ago (2022), Advanced Space collaborated with a team of science and engineering organizations to help design a science mission to study the effects of the biggest space weather maker in the solar system: the Sun. The mission concept, called Plasma Imaging, LOcal measurement, and Tomographic experiment (PILOT), is designed to measure the flow of cold, dense plasma into and out of Earth’s magnetosphere to better understand how the interaction between Sun and Earth’s planetary magnetic field defines the evolution of our planetary atmosphere. To measure these flows in real time requires a fleet of 34 satellites revolving around the Earth in two different orbits to capture plasma movement at different spatial and temporal scales.
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Aug 3, 2023 | Machine Learning & AI
Westminster, CO – Advanced Space LLC., a leading space tech solutions company, is pleased to announce that NASA has selected two of our new Phase I concepts under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. (more…)
Aug 2, 2023 | Team
As we prepare for further growth in the future, Advanced Space has added more new members to our team. These professionals will help us develop and improve the administrative capabilities needed to meet the increasing demands of our programs and projects. (more…)
Jul 27, 2023 | CAPSTONE Mission, Community
Three key members of the CAPSTONE™ team—Program Manager and Operations Lead Alec Forsman, Mission Design Lead Ethan Kayser, and Principal Investigator and Advanced Space CEO Bradley Cheetham—visited NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to share lessons learned from the mission, as well as to discuss potential future collaborations. (more…)
