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Reliable. High performance. Flight proven.

Odyssey Space designs and delivers spacecraft, payloads, and scientific instruments for civil, commercial, and national security space missions.

About

About Odyssey Space

Odyssey Space designs and delivers spacecraft, payloads, and scientific instruments for civil, commercial, and national security space missions.

What we do

  • Mission architecture and concept studies
  • Instrument development and optomechanical systems
  • Integration and performance validation

Who leads

  • Former NASA and industry engineers and scientists
  • Experience across observatories, planetary missions, and spaceflight research
  • Focus areas include astrophysics, Earth observation, and human spaceflight

Where we operate

  • Low Earth orbit, cislunar, and deep-space missions
  • Programs executed with government, research, and commercial partners
  • Support from early studies through operations

Our Values

Reliability

Systems engineered to hold performance from analysis through integration and test, with clear margins, disciplined verification, and traceable requirements throughout the build.

Systems Thinking

Optics, instruments, interfaces, and operations treated as one integrated system, so design trades, integration plans, and mission ops stay aligned from day one.

Collaboration

Work done side by side with partners, operators, and science teams across mission phases, balancing engineering and scientific intent with delivery constraints and maintaining shared ownership.

Velocity

Rapid iteration that keeps programs moving without compromising rigor, using short feedback loops, fast prototyping, and decisive reviews to keep momentum.

Life at Odyssey

Collaboration from concept to flight.

Small teams, deep expertise, and clear ownership across every phase of a mission.

Design & trade studies

Concept architecture, requirements trades, and feasibility analysis to frame mission scope.

Integration & test readiness

I&T planning, verification flow, and readiness reviews that keep delivery on schedule.

Mission ops & delivery

On-orbit operations planning, procedures, and handoffs from integration to flight.