From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 }}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link )
^ 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 .
External links