Our Mission
At Aspect Aerospace, we are a dedicated team of satellite designers and builders with flight heritage. Rather than just shrinking a CubeSat into a smaller CubeSat, we've decided to rewrite the script.
Our Story
With the success of the custom-built Jagsat-1 satellite, two faculty members from the University of South Alabama launched Aspect Aerospace. Using technology and "know-how" from the university, and using Dr. Spencer's groundbreaking space sensor development, Aspect is poised to offer flight-proven technology and unique sensing capabilities.
Owned and operated in the United States of America, Aspect Aerospace leverages custom TRL-9 hardware and software solutions to make space weather events actionable.
Our Successful Satellite Launch
Meet the Team
Co-Founder + Chief Executive Officer
Drew Russ
Drew Russ led the Mechanical and GN&C development of JagSat-1 before entering the startup world as a GN&C and Flight Software Engineer. With a background NASA-funded and USSF-funded projects as an engineer, Drew has a unique perspective on the aerospace startup business development landscape.
Co-Founder + Chief Science Officer
Dr. Edmund Spencer
Dr. Edmund Spencer performs research in space plasma physics and space weather, including the design and development of next-generation space plasma instruments. Dr. Spencer pioneered the revolutionary time-domain approach to measuring plasma density. His TDIP has flown sub-orbital as well as on-orbit missions, namely JagSat-1.
Co-Founder + Chief Technical Officer
Dr. Sam Russ
Dr. Russ was an engineering manager at Scientific Atlanta. He is named inventor on 29 issued US patents and managed a team that won an Engineering and Technology Emmy Award for inventing Multi-Room DVR. At South Alabama, he teaches classes in embedded systems and signal integrity. He supervised the circuit board and software design of JagSat-1