Jan 22, 2024 | Team
What is the most interesting part of your current project?
It’s a Space Situational Awareness (SSA) project to observe activity around the Moon and in the Earth-Moon corridor, which is a really hot topic for government and commercial entities these days. It’s also interesting to interact with so many partners: we have a subcontract for a [spacecraft] bus provider; another for the bus propulsion system; we’re purchasing the communications system; our bus sub has a sub for the imaging payload while we’re providing our unique expertise on cislunar navigation, ops, systems, and comms; and all of this has to come together to accomplish the mission. Not to mention it’s super cool to be the prime and work directly with the customer on this contract! (more…)
Jan 18, 2024 | National Security
Taking the Space Force Seriously
In December, Bradley Cheetham, CEO, Dave Jungkind, Chief Revenue Officer & Special Program Lead, and Bart Leahy, Senior Technical Writer, attended Spacepower. Dave Jungkind shares his perspective on Space Force in the industry. The United States Space Force (USSF) came into being December 20, 2019. Happy belated birthday to our newest service and Semper supra! This past month, The US Space Force Association (SFA), the industry and volunteer community of the Space Force, put together their first conference in Orlando: Spacepower. It was an engaging gathering and Advanced Space was honored to sponsor and attend the conference. (more…)
Nov 17, 2023 | CAPSTONE Mission
CAPSTONE Contributes to a Resilient U.S. Space Architecture in Cislunar Space
Westminster, CO — Advanced Space, a leading space tech solutions company, announced today that their Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission has successfully operated on-orbit around the Moon for a full year. This milestone puts the company in an elite category logging over 365 days of continuous operations in the cislunar environment. As the first company to operate a commercial satellite at the Moon, Advanced Space has gained valuable insights around cislunar operations that can only come from hands-on experience. (more…)
Oct 13, 2023 | Team
Westminster, CO –Advanced Space, LLC, a leading space tech solutions company, is pleased to announce the promotion of Dawn Massop Love to Chief Operating Officer. This role comes with increased authority over company processes as well as day-to-day leadership and managerial responsibility of each company department. Dawn started with Advanced Space in 2021 as the Director of Strategic Communications. (more…)
Oct 4, 2023 | Community, Team
What has been your favorite project at Advanced Space and why?
This may be a common answer, but I’d have to say CAPSTONE™. It was an incredible opportunity to become the Mission Design Lead for a Moon mission just three years after finishing my undergraduate degree. That role is something I envisioned I’d get to do maybe a decade into my career. This unique opportunity really solidified that I had made the right choice in abandoning grad school plans and moving across the country to join a small company of less than 10 people. It’s also amazing to be part of something much bigger, knowing that CAPSTONE is part of Artemis and is helping to pave the way to get humans back on the surface of the Moon.
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Sep 19, 2023 | Team
Westminster, CO – Advanced Space, LLC, a leading space tech solutions company today announced the appointment of Dave Jungkind as the company’s first Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In this capacity, Jungkind will be responsible for the continued growth of the Advanced Space portfolio supporting national security, civil, and commercial customers. Jungkind brings over 30 years of industry experience as a trusted strategist, technologist and leader. As an integral member of the leadership team, Dave will lead the business development, sales, and marketing teams as well as directly manage national security programs. (more…)
Sep 18, 2023 | Team
Westminster, CO – Advanced Space, LLC, a leading space tech solutions company, is pleased to announce the promotion of Thomas Gardner to Chief Engineer. Gardner, who has served as Director of Engineering for Advanced Space since 2016, will be responsible for the full scope of Advanced Space’s growing portfolio and our expanding engineering team. He also will be responsible for the department budget, meeting departmental metrics and goals, and making personnel decisions. His work will include reviewing and approving the work of the engineers who report to him along with attending design reviews, test plan reviews, design failure mode and effect analysis (DFMEA) meetings, and other critical design function meetings to make sure their people are following best practices and internal/industry standards. He will collaborate with the Project Managers to get the right people assigned to projects and get projects done and occasionally manage or supervise small projects that don’t require a Project Manager. (more…)
Sep 14, 2023 | Community, Team
Space research & technology development firm recognizes community organizations CEO and President Bradley Cheetham is involved with, continuing to elevate Colorado’s reputation in the space community
Westminster, CO – Advanced Space, a leading space tech solutions company, today affirmed its commitment to joining community-based organizations that elevate professionals and companies while helping young minds break into the world of aerospace. Bradley Cheetham, CEO and President of Advanced Space, has joined and is an active participant in several such organizations, as he hopes to advance the aerospace industry and cement Colorado’s budding reputation as a leader in the exploration and development of space. (more…)
Sep 12, 2023 | Papers & Presentations
As the seasons begin changing we look back on our summer highlights including one of our favorite conferences to share all our great work. If you didn’t have a chance to attend our talks in person at the Summer 2023 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, we’ve uploaded all our papers below! (more…)
Aug 30, 2023 | CAPSTONE Mission
Serving as an orbital pathfinder for the Gateway, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE™) spacecraft has operated successfully for almost 300 days. During that time, the CubeSat has demonstrated its key functions, entering and maintaining its unique orbit — a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) — and operating a peer-to-peer navigation technology that incorporates relative tracking between two vehicles. (more…)
