Veteran NASA optical engineer Bert Pasquale joins Odyssey Space technical leadership.

Veteran NASA optical engineer Bert Pasquale joins Odyssey Space technical leadership.

Odyssey Space has strengthened its technical leadership with the appointment of Bert Pasquale, a veteran NASA optical engineer with extensive experience in space observatories and planetary science missions.

Pasquale served as lead optical designer for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and contributed to instrumentation for the Cassini–Huygens mission. His expertise spans advanced optical system design, spectrograph and calibration hardware development, and high-precision instrument modeling for both space- and ground-based observatories.

His addition expands Odyssey Space’s capabilities in optical architecture, instrument development, and mission systems engineering — supporting programs from early concept studies through hardware integration and performance validation.