Dr. Ben Ashman

Benjamin Ashman is an aerospace engineer in the Navigation and Mission Design Branch at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. His research is focused on space applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Dr. Ashman has supported numerous missions, including TDRS-M and OSIRIS-Rex. He is currently a co-investigator for the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment, navigation lead for NASA’s lunar relay development, and detailee to the Space Communications and Navigation program at NASA headquarters. He was the 2021-2022 Institute of Navigation congressional fellow and spent the year in the office of Senator Sherrod Brown. Dr. Ashman is from Dayton, Ohio and received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 2016 and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University in 2010.