American academic and scientist
Mason Peck is an associate professor at Cornell University and former NASA Chief Technologist .[ 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]
Peck has served on the advisory board of Mars One since February 2014.[ 12]
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 .
^ Weaver, David; Friedlander, Blaine (2011-11-08). "NASA Administrator Names Peck Agency's Chief Technologist" (Press release). NASA. 11-374. Archived from the original on 2022-04-18. Retrieved 2011-11-11 . }
^ 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; et al. (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 . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-25.
^ Peck, Mason A (15–18 Aug 2005). "Low-Power, High-Agility Space Robotics" . AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference Proceedings . San Francisco, CA: 1–2. doi :10.2514/6.2005-6243 . ISBN 978-1-62410-056-7 . Retrieved 11 March 2023 .
^ Mason A. Peck; Michael A. Paluszek; Stephanie J. Thomas; Joseph B. Mueller (2005). Control-Moment Gyroscopes for Joint Actuation: A New Paradigm in Space Robotics . 1st Space Exploration Conference: Continuing the Voyage of Discovery. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.120.1438 . doi :10.2514/6.2005-2522 . AIAA 2005-2522.
^ Peck, Mason A. (11–15 Feb 2001). "Dynamics of a gyroscopic hopping rover" . Proceedings of the 11th Annual AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting . Santa Barbara, CA. pp. 1369–1389. ISBN 0-87703-487-7 . {{cite encyclopedia }}
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^ 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. Bibcode :2010JSpRo..47..484S . doi :10.2514/1.45704 . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-11-03. Retrieved 2011-11-11 .
^ 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 .
^ "We're pleased to welcome Dr. Mason Peck to our advisory board..." Google+ . Mars One . 24 February 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2014 .
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