Our Team

Dr. Hank Voss is Professor of Physics & Engineering at Taylor University, where he has, among other accomplishments, overseen the launch of the first ever Taylor University satellite. Prior to Taylor, he spent 15 years at Lockheed Martin in the space science field, developing sensors and instruments for satellites as well as the actual satellites. He continued this effort at Taylor, and in 2003 started high altitude launches as a cost-effective method of testing his sensors and instruments, a method which he then proceeded to implement in his undergraduate classes as a tool for developing nanosatellites.  Under his guidance, a group of Taylor students then presented their nanosatellite, known as Taylor CubeSat at the CubeSat Workshop, Small Sat Conference and Air Force Design Review in Logan, Utah, where Taylor was the only university to send a panel composed entirely of undergraduates.

Mr. Jeff Dailey has 26 years of experience in designing, developing, and building cutting-edge instruments, sensors, and electronics for applications ranging from data systems to satellites. Previous jobs include Research Engineer at Taylor University for six years and Director of R&D at Scadata Ventures for eight years, where he oversaw hardware and software design for wireless products. In 2003, he partnered with Hank Voss as a volunteer to help develop the High Altitude Research Platform (HARP), which Taylor University has since used for over 300 balloon launches, over 99% of which were successfully recovered. Jeff Dailey and Hank Voss have the distinction of designing, developing, building, testing, and delivering a nanosatellite to the Air Force in just three months.

Matt Orvis is a graduate of Taylor University, with a Master of Science in Physics from Ball State University. His previous experience includes work on several satellites with Dr. Hank Voss. He was part of the design team for the TSAT nanosatellite, Indiana’s first satellite in orbit. For this satellite, he was the lead engineer for the THEEF subsystem, an electric field and VLF sensor. He was also involved in designing the ELEO nanosatellite and provided analysis on orbital dynamics. He has developed subsystems for multiple high-altitude balloon launches, testing different equipment and sensors with the High Altitude Research Platform (HARP). For NSL, he works as a satellite engineer developing satellites, as well as a computational scientist providing analysis on spaceflight and subsystem physics.

Matt has served at NearSpace Launch, Inc. since 2015.

Dr. Stefan Brandle is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Taylor University. His professional experience includes two decades teaching undergraduate and graduate computer science courses at five universities, a decade as a network and system administrator, two decades of research and development (R&D) concurrently with teaching, and technology-related community outreach. R&D areas include developing network and systems cybersecurity tools, satellite communications for a number of micro-/cubesats, automated evaluation and feedback of student programs, automated inter-linking enhancement of legal document sets, and tutoring systems with natural language dialog capability.

Stefan has consulted with NearSpace Launch since 2014.