Connect

Small Spacecraft Office, NASA Ames Research Center

Dr. William Marshall is based in the Small Spacecraft Office at NASA’s Ames Research Center. Dr. Marshall holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oxford, U.K., where his thesis centered on an experimental proposal to create macroscopic mass quantum superposition states. He holds a degree in Physics with Space Science and Technology (MPhys) from the University of Leicester, U.K. He has held placements at the European Space Agency, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Marshall Space Flight Center and the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) in London. Marshall’s work at NASA centers on mission planning, in particular trajectory analysis and spacecraft testing for a variety of microsatellite missions, focusing on lunar orbiters and landers. He also served as the Global co-Chair of the Space Generation Advisory Council to the United Nations Programme on Space Applications (SGAC), which represents the views of students and young professionals interested in space to the UN and space agencies around the world.