n-Science Corporation, a Small Business Concern (SBA), was founded in 2004 by a group of experienced aerospace engineers with the intent to provide innovative and effective products and services to the science and aerospace communities. n-Sci believes in a no-nonsense approach to providing solutions that best fit customer requirements. n-Sci employees have been instrumental through hardware or software contributions on high profile programs over a history that goes back 40+ years.
The heritage of n-Sci and its people reaches back over 40 years ago to the original Glenn L. Martin company. Joe Martin, our most experienced member, started there in what was the Baltimore Research Labs. Most of our people have taken similar routes to us through the likes of Martin Marietta, Lockheed, Ball Aerospace & Hughes Aircraft.
A Program Heritage “short list”: Viking, Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP), Thermal Evolved GasAnalyzer (TEGA), Mars Polar Pathfinder(MPP), Advanced X-Ray CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) for the Chandra X-Ray Telescope, Descent Imager Spectral Radiometer (DISR) for the Cassini/Huygens Probe, PTC Experiments on STS-90 & STS-108, Mars Climate Observer, Mars Polar Lander, Stardust, Genesis, Space Based Laser (SBL), Airborne Laser (ABL), Tactical Laser Comm (TLC), Advanced Tactical Laser Comm (ATLC), Fine Pointing Laser Tracker (FPLT), Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS) for Mars Observer, Net Flux Radiometer (NFR) for Galileo, Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS), Mars Instrument Development Programs (MIDPs), Planetary Instrument Development Programs (PIDDPs), Flight Telerobotic Servicers (FTS), Launch Fleet Data Transducer (LFDT), Optical Ignition Detection System (IGDET), Targets & Countermeasures, Advanced Low Temp Regenerator (ALTR), Spacelab 2, SIRTF, Mineral Identification & Composition Analyzer (MICA), Martin Black, Deep Sky Black, Identify Friend or Foe (IFF), Boost Surveillance & Tracking System (BSTS), Airborne Optical Adjunct (AOA).
That is what makes a team work,…”
Vince Lombardi
Our Family
Key Direct Personnel:
| Dan Scheld | President |
| Dr. Joe Martin | Director of Science Programs, Chief Scientist |
| Dr. Dan Ladner | Director of R&D Programs, Chief R&D Scientist |
| John Flemming | Director of Engineering Programs |
| Patrick Thompson | Senior R&D Engineer |
Some of our Principle Investigators & CoIs include:
| Dr. John Marshall | SETI Institute |
| Dr. Penelope Boston | New Mexico Tech / Complex Systems Research |
| Dr. Rocco Mancinelli | NASA AMES / SETI |
| Dr. Don Williamson | Colorado School of Mines |
| Dr. Dan Kojiro | NASA AMES |
| Dr. Jeff Plescia | Johns Hopkins/Applied Physics Laboratory |
| Dr. Kim Kuhlman | Planetary Science Institute |
| Dr. Linda Ellis | San Francisco State University |
| Dr. Kris Zacny | Honeybee Robotics |
Board of Directors:
| Daniel Scheld | President, N-Science Corporation |
| Jack Davis | President and CEO, Advanced Surface Technologies, Inc. |
| Dr. Joseph Martin | Director, N-Science Corp. |
| Joseph H. Rothenberg | President, Universal Space Network |
| Christopher McCormick | CEO, Broad Reach Engineering Co. |
| Tom Meyer | Honorary Director, Founder, Mars Underground |