For years, space architecture was treated mostly as a question of placement: where to put a spacecraft, and how reliably it could hold position. That framing is now too narrow. […]
Author Archives: Michael J. Patterson
Michael J. Patterson is founder and chief engineer of Desert Works Propulsion and a former NASA Senior Technologist for In-Space Propulsion. He has four decades of electric propulsion experience, including leading NASA ion propulsion programs, such as the NSTAR & NEXT engines flown on Deep Space 1, Dawn and DART.