Technology developed and tested by the Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory has traveled hundreds of millions of miles across space to help NASA map and collect a sample of the asteroid Bennu.
Given a chance to follow his dreams at Utah State University, Jed Hancock is leading the team at Space Dynamics Laboratory into Utah’s next frontier.
That fire eventually caught the attention of engineering professor and Space Dynamics Laboratory founder Doran Baker, who, Hancock said, helped him land a NASA fellowship to pay his way to his master’s degree from Utah State. Baker, an engineer and space researcher, saw something in Hancock that others had not.
, and provide what scientists hope will be a greater understanding of the origins of life in our universe.NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in September 2016 — its sights aimed at Bennu. But the work on those sights, the cameras that help OSIRIS navigate and map its way across space, began in 2012 at Space Dynamics Laboratory.
“That camera would need to be used with lots of different solar angles and different positions with respect to the sun and the asteroid,” Hancock said in an interview at his North Logan office. “So we did a full test here to make sure that would work appropriately on orbit.” But OSIRIS isn’t done exploring yet, and will set its sights on a new mission, using its suite of visual sensors to study the asteroid Apophis, which is expected to travel close to Earth in 2029,
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