Management Team
MANAGEMENT TEAM
! JOHN THORNTON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER John Thornton has grown Astrobo/c's business of delivering affordable space robo/cs technology and planetary missions by a=rac/ng technology contracts, equity investment, and payload customers. Thornton is coordina/ng the team and alliance for Griffin's development and the 2015 mission. At Carnegie Mellon, Thornton led the build of Scarab, a NASA concept robot for lunar drilling, and the first robot to carry a prototype of NASA's RESOLVE payload. He founded Carnegie Mellon's Advanced Composites Lab, a research, training, design, and manufacturing lab specializing in high performance, lightweight composites for robo/cs.
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STEVEN HUBER, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Steven Huber manages Astrobo/c's opera/ons and contract fulfillment. He led the design, build, and tes/ng of Griffin's primary structure, landing sensor gimbal, compressive legs, and rover egress ramps. Huber leads Astrobo/c's ILDD contract including flight qualifica/on of Griffin's structure and development of two major design documents – the Icebreaker Preliminary Design Document, which details a polar prospec/ng mission on Griffin, and the Mooncruiser system defini/on document.
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KEVIN PETERSON, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER Kevin Peterson manages Astrobo/c's technology development. Peterson has fielded a dozen autonomous systems, including autonomous UXO survey, high-‐speed desert and urban driving, construc/on, and naval systems. Peterson was the technical lead for Carnegie Mellon's DARPA Grand Challenge teams. At Astrobo/c, Peterson leads 5 ac/ve NASA contracts for Autolanding for Robo/c Precursor Missions; Reliable, Hardened GPS-‐Denied Naviga/on and Landing; Resource Aware Planning for Shadowed and Uncertain Domains; Long-‐Range Predic/on of Non-‐Geometric Terrain Hazards for Reliable Planetary Rover Traverse; and Non-‐Geometric Terrain Sensing for Autonomous Excava/on and Site Work.
! JOHN THORNTON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER John Thornton has grown Astrobo/c's business of delivering affordable space robo/cs technology and planetary missions by a=rac/ng technology contracts, equity investment, and payload customers. Thornton is coordina/ng the team and alliance for Griffin's development and the 2015 mission. At Carnegie Mellon, Thornton led the build of Scarab, a NASA concept robot for lunar drilling, and the first robot to carry a prototype of NASA's RESOLVE payload. He founded Carnegie Mellon's Advanced Composites Lab, a research, training, design, and manufacturing lab specializing in high performance, lightweight composites for robo/cs.
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STEVEN HUBER, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Steven Huber manages Astrobo/c's opera/ons and contract fulfillment. He led the design, build, and tes/ng of Griffin's primary structure, landing sensor gimbal, compressive legs, and rover egress ramps. Huber leads Astrobo/c's ILDD contract including flight qualifica/on of Griffin's structure and development of two major design documents – the Icebreaker Preliminary Design Document, which details a polar prospec/ng mission on Griffin, and the Mooncruiser system defini/on document.
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KEVIN PETERSON, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER Kevin Peterson manages Astrobo/c's technology development. Peterson has fielded a dozen autonomous systems, including autonomous UXO survey, high-‐speed desert and urban driving, construc/on, and naval systems. Peterson was the technical lead for Carnegie Mellon's DARPA Grand Challenge teams. At Astrobo/c, Peterson leads 5 ac/ve NASA contracts for Autolanding for Robo/c Precursor Missions; Reliable, Hardened GPS-‐Denied Naviga/on and Landing; Resource Aware Planning for Shadowed and Uncertain Domains; Long-‐Range Predic/on of Non-‐Geometric Terrain Hazards for Reliable Planetary Rover Traverse; and Non-‐Geometric Terrain Sensing for Autonomous Excava/on and Site Work.
