Tetra Tech Advent has performing research in support of finalizing the design requirement details of Dr. Terry Kammash's Gas Dynamic Mirror rocket propulsion system concept. Dr. Kammash is a Stephen S. Atwood Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. His concept is one of only a few presently considered both feasible and achievable in the near-term for deep space travel such as for manned missions to Mars.

Tetra Tech Advent’s role in the research included performing parametric analysis of a nuclear propulsion system for an upper stage of a launch vehicle for NASA (click for details) and performing a computational investigation of two fuel cycles and thrust enhancement methods for a multipurpose upper state nuclear propulsion system for NASA (click for details)