- Mason Peck
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Mason Peck is NASA Chief Technologist, and an associate professor at Cornell University.[1][2][3] His immediate predecessor in the NASA position was Bobby Braun.
He 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]
In 2007, Peck was awarded $75,000 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, by exploiting the Lorentz Force enabled by using photovoltaics to maintain an electrostatic charge while orbiting in the Earth's magnetic field.[10][11]
References
- ^ Montalbano, Elizabeth (November 9, 2011). "NASA Names Cornell Professor To CTO Position". InformationWeek. http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/leadership/231902655. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
- ^ Hand, Eric (November 8, 2011). "Chipsat pioneer named NASA's chief technologist". Nature Publishing Group. http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/11/chipsat_pioneer_named_nasas_ch.html. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
- ^ NASA (Nov. 8, 2011). "NASA Administrator Names Peck Agency's Chief Technologist". Sacramento Bee. http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/08/4039032/nasa-administrator-names-peck.html. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
- ^ Jana L. Schwartz; Mason A. Peck; Christopher D. Hall (2003). "Historical Review of Spacecraft Simulators". Proceedings of the AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting, no. AAS 03-125. doi:10.1.1.113.4383. http://www.dept.aoe.vt.edu/~cdhall/papers/draft0301091.pdf.
- ^ 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)". Advances in the Astronautical Sciences (American Astronautical Society) 114: 427–446. ISSN 0065-3438. http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~acavende/aas03127.pdf.
- ^ 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. http://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:DnmRMv__wEIJ:scholar.google.com/&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5.
- ^ Mason A. Peck; Michael A. Paluszek; Stephanie J. Thomas; Joseph B. Mueller. Control-Moment Gyroscopes for Joint Actuation: A New Paradigm in Space Robotics. doi:10.1.1.120.1438. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.120.1438&rep=rep1&type=pdf.
- ^ 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 0877034877. http://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:7vcGJq_ALaIJ:scholar.google.com/&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5.
- ^ Streetman, Brett; Peck, Mason A (May-Jun 2010). "General Bang-Bang Control Method for Lorentz Augmented Orbits". Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets 47 (3): 484–492. http://www.spacecraftresearch.com/files/StreetmanPeck_AAS2008.pdf.
- ^ Mone, Gregory (August 2007). "Mmmm, Space Chips". Popular Science 271 (2). http://books.google.com/books?id=F8WT8-2-XQkC&lpg=PA34&dq=mason.peck%20nasa&pg=PA34#v=onepage&q=mmmm,space.chips&f=false.
- ^ "Cornell To Study Planetary Magnetic Fields Propulsion Research Under NASA Grant". SpaceDaily.com. Feb 28, 2007. http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Cornell_To_Study_Planetary_Magnetic_Fields_Propulsion_Research_Under_NASA_Grant_999.html. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
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