Dr. Anderson is a Mechanical Engineer at Orion Space Solutions and Adjunct Faculty at Utah State University. Lucas Anderson is the lead systems engineer and CO-I on the NASA funded (SSTP) Active CryoCubeSat (ACCS), and Active Thermal Architecture (ATA) projects as well as the ESTO Active Cooling for Multi-spectral Earth Sensor (ACMES) flight demonstration. He is also the PI for the Mass Spectrometry of the Turbopause Region (MSTR) technology development. Lucas is currently a research engineer with Orion Space Solutions and the Center for Space Engineering at Utah State University. He has worked on Aerospace research and development with the Space Dynamics Laboratory, Air Force Research Labs, ATK Test Division, and as a consultant with ASTRA Space. He has also worked closely with the Jet Propulsions Laboratory. He has a Bachelors and Masters in Mechanical engineering and is concluding a PhD and post-doctoral position in Electrical engineering.