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Spinoff story
Scheduling Software Plans Public, Private Space Missions
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
Alex and Ella Herz learned about space mission scheduling while working payload operations at Johnson Space Center, and Alex and Doug George later created scheduling software for a planned lidar mission at Goddard Space Flight Center. The three founded Greenbelt, Maryland-based Orbit Logic, where one of their first products was STK Scheduler, a generic, reconfigurable scheduling program for space operations. Orbit Logic has sold licenses for the program to around 250 customers, including most NASA field centers.