Mason Peck
Mason Peck is NASA's Chief Technologist, and an associate professor at Cornell University.[1][2][3] His immediate predecessor in the NASA position was Bobby Braun.
Peck has published in various aerospace sub-disciplines including; air-bearing spacecraft simulation,[4][5] low-power space robotics,[6][7] hopping rovers,[8] and Lorentz-augmented orbits.[9]
Peck was awarded $75,000 in 2007 by NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) to study how a large fleet of microchip-size space probes in Earth orbit might propel themselves into the Interplanetary Transport Network; and thence as far as Jupiter's moon Europa. This was to be achieved by exploiting the Lorentz Force, enabled by using photovoltaics to maintain an electrostatic charge while orbiting in Earth's magnetic field.[10][11]
References
- ^ Montalbano, Elizabeth (November 9, 2011). "NASA Names Cornell Professor To CTO Position". InformationWeek. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
- ^ Hand, Eric (November 8, 2011). "Chipsat pioneer named NASA's chief technologist". Nature Publishing Group. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
- ^ NASA (Nov. 8, 2011). "NASA Administrator Names Peck Agency's Chief Technologist". Sacramento Bee. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Jana L. Schwartz; Mason A. Peck; Christopher D. Hall (2003). "Historical Review of Spacecraft Simulators" (PDF). Proceedings of the AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting, no. AAS 03-125.
- ^ Peck, M. A.; Miller, L.; Cavender, A. R.; Gonzalez; M. Hintz, T. (2003). "An Airbearing-Based Testbed for Momentum Control Systems and Spacecraft Line of Sight (AAS 03-127)" (PDF). Advances in the Astronautical Sciences. 114. American Astronautical Society: 427–446. ISSN 0065-3438.
- ^ Peck, Mason A (15-18 Aug. 2005). "Low-Power, High-Agility Space Robotics". AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference Proceedings. San Francisco, CA. pp. 1–2.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Mason A. Peck; Michael A. Paluszek; Stephanie J. Thomas; Joseph B. Mueller. "Control-Moment Gyroscopes for Joint Actuation: A New Paradigm in Space Robotics". CiteSeerx: 10.1.1.120.1438.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Peck, Mason A. (11-15 Feb. 2001). "Dynamics of a gyroscopic hopping rover". Proceeding of the 11th Annual AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting. Santa Barbara, CA. pp. 1369–1389. ISBN 0-87703-487-7.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Streetman, Brett; Peck, Mason A (May–Jun 2010). "General Bang-Bang Control Method for Lorentz Augmented Orbits" (PDF). Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 47 (3): 484–492.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - ^ Mone, Gregory (August 2007). "Mmmm, Space Chips". Popular Science. 271 (2).
- ^ "Cornell To Study Planetary Magnetic Fields Propulsion Research Under NASA Grant". SpaceDaily.com. Feb 28, 2007. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
External links
- Space Systems Design Studio
- Mason Peck, MAE, Ralph S. Watts '72 Award
- Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year Award (2009)
- Boyle, Alan (11 Nov 2011). "NASA's top techie speaks out". Cosmic Log. MSNBC. Retrieved 2011-12-04.
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