Odyssey Space Research LLC, based at NASAs Johnson Space Center, provides engineering research and analysis services for Guidance, Navigation & Control (GN&C) design, analysis, integration, evaluation and testing. The firm specializes in rendezvous, proximity operations and capture (including automated rendezvous and docking) as well as other in-space flight phases. Odyssey has expertise with both crewed and un-crewed spacecraft, giving them the ability to perform spacecraft systems engineering functions from concept development, trade studies, and feasibility assessments to requirements development and analysis, and system/sub-system integration, evaluation and test. Odyssey is part of the Innovative Space Propulsion Systems (ISPS) team that is developing a new propulsion technology, NOFBX. NOFBX is a high-performance, environmentally friendly, mono-propulsion technology that in many ways is superior to traditional propulsion systems used in spaceflight. ISPS (with Odyssey) has been selected by NASA to perform an NOFBX flight experiment onboard the International Space Station (ISS), which will involve mounting a team-developed thruster on the main truss of the ISS and performing a series of test firings using the NOFBX mono-propellant. Odyssey also has developed an experimental iPhone app named SpaceLab for iOS, which was used for space-based research aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
