Jaret Matthews
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Jaret B. Matthews is an aerospace engineer and CEO of Astrolab (Venturi Astrolab, Inc.), which he founded in January, 2020.[1] Astrolab is creating commercial planetary surface mobility vehicles for the Moon and Mars and was awarded a contract to develop NASA’s Lunar Terrain Vehicle in 2024.[2] Astrolab will send their first rover to the Moon in 2025 on the Astrobotic Griffin 1 mission.[3] Prior to Astrolab, Matthews spent seven years at Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) as manager of the Dragon Spacecraft Mechanisms development team, supporting the NASA Commercial Crew Program and the NASA Commercial Resupply Services Program.[4] Jaret spent the first decade of his career at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the Robotic Vehicles Group. At JPL, Matthews led the development of novel mobility and manipulation systems such as the ATHLETE lunar rover, the Axel extreme terrain rover, the MoonRise robotic arm, and a variety of subsurface and aerial mobility platforms.[5] Matthews has spent significant time testing rovers in planetary analog field sites worldwide, including Antarctica, Arctic Canada (two times via the NASA Haughton Mars Project), Alaska, Hawaii (at PISCES), Iceland, and dozens of other analog locations. Matthews participated in four prior D-RATS campaigns (Black Point 2009 and 2010, Moses Lake 2008, Meteor Crater 2006).[6]
Education
[edit]Matthews holds a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical and aerospace engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana and a master’s degree in space studies from the International Space University (ISU) in Illkirch-Graffenstaden near Stasbourg, France.[5]
Awards & Patents
[edit]In 2011, Matthews was awarded the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for Leadership and Technical Success on the ATHLETE program.[7] His work in the joint JPL-Michelin lunar compatible tire and the Axel rover led him to receive two patents - Elastic Shear Band with Helical Coils WO/2009/042460 and Robotic Two-Wheeled Vehicle US8496077B2, respectively.[8]
See also
[edit]“Design, Development, Testing, and Flight of the Crew Dragon Docking System.” Jaret Matthews, Caitlin Driscoll, Edward Fouad & Andrew Welter, Marc Jamulowicz & Jessica Ipnar, Proceedings of the 45th Aerospace Mechanisms Symposium at NASA Johnson Space Center. Houston, TX 2020.[9]
“Traverse Performance Characterization for the Mars Science Laboratory Rover.” Matt Heverly, Jaret Matthews, Justin Lin, Dan Fuller, Mark Maimone, Jeffrey Biesiadecki, John Leichty. Journal of Field Robotics Volume 30, Issue 6 September 19, 2013.[10]
“Axel and DuAxel rovers for the sustainable exploration of extreme terrains.” Issa A.D. Nesnas, Jaret B. Matthews, Pablo Abad-Manterola, Joel W. Burdick, Jeffrey A. Edlund, Jack C. Morrison, Robert D. Peters, Melissa M. Tanner, Robert N. Miyake, Benjamin S. Solish, Robert C. Anderson. Journal of Field Robotics. February 3, 2012. Volume 29, Issue 4, Pg. 663-685.[11]
“Athlete: A cargo handling and manipulation robot for the moon.” B. Wilcox, T. Litwin, J. Biesiadecki, J. Matthews, M. Heverly, J. Morrison, J. Townsend, N. Ahmad, A. Sirota, B. Cooper. Journal of Field Robotics, May 2007, Volume 24, Issue 5, Pg. 421-434.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ Grush, Loren (March 10, 2022). "Aerospace startup reveals new modular lunar rover for carrying people and cargo on the Moon". The Verge.
- ^ "Astrolab awarded contract by NASA as part of the LTV project. – Astrolab". www.astrolab.space.
- ^ Foust, Jeff (February 5, 2025). "Astrolab to fly its FLIP lunar rover on Astrobotic's Griffin-1 lander". SpaceNews.
- ^ "Jaret Matthews".
- ^ a b "JPL Robotics: Jaret Matthews". www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov.
- ^ Behar, Alberto; Carsey, Frank; Matthews, Jaret; Jones, Jack (December 1, 2004). Jamshidi, M.; Ollero, A.; Martinez-de Dios, J.R.; Jamshidi, J.S. (eds.). "An antarctic deployment of the NASA/JPL tumbleweed polar rover: Robotics: Trends, Principles, and Applications - International Symposium on Robotics and Applications, ISORA - Sixth Biannual World Automation Congress, WAC 2004". Robotics: 453–460 – via Arizona State University.
- ^ "2011 NASA Honor Awards". www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov. 2011-07-19.
- ^ "Jaret B. Matthews Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com.
- ^ Matthews, Jaret; Driscoll, Caitlin; Fouad, Edward; Welter, Andrew; Jarmulowicz, Marc; Ipnar, Jessica. "Design, Development, Testing, and Flight of the Crew Dragon Docking System" (PDF). esmats.eu.
- ^ Heverly, Matt; Matthews, Jaret; Lin, Justin; Fuller, Dan; Maimone, Mark; Biesiadecki, Jeffrey; Leichty, John (November 2013). "Traverse Performance Characterization for the Mars Science Laboratory Rover". Journal of Field Robotics. 30 (6): 835–846. doi:10.1002/rob.21481. ISSN 1556-4959.
- ^ Nesnas, Issa A.D.; Matthews, Jaret B.; Abad-Manterola, Pablo; Burdick, Joel W.; Edlund, Jeffrey A.; Morrison, Jack C.; Peters, Robert D.; Tanner, Melissa M.; Miyake, Robert N.; Solish, Benjamin S.; Anderson, Robert C. (July 2012). "Axel and DuAxel rovers for the sustainable exploration of extreme terrains". Journal of Field Robotics. 29 (4): 663–685. doi:10.1002/rob.21407. ISSN 1556-4959.
- ^ Wilcox, Brian H.; Litwin, Todd; Biesiadecki, Jeff; Matthews, Jaret; Heverly, Matt; Morrison, Jack; Townsend, Julie; Ahmad, Norman; Sirota, Allen; Cooper, Brian (May 2007). "Athlete: A cargo handling and manipulation robot for the moon". Journal of Field Robotics. 24 (5): 421–434. doi:10.1002/rob.20193. ISSN 1556-4959.