Startup NASA Feature Series: Expanding Frontiers
Join us for the next Startup NASA Series virtual event on January 17, 2024 at 11:00 AM ET and discover how Expanding Frontiers (ExF) is shaping novel educational experiences in Brownsville, Texas. They have integrated NASA Tech Transfer and mentorship into all their programs, providing immersive hands-on training for students, veterans, and aspiring entrepreneurs. This organization aims to accelerate the growth of an innovation ecosystem in Brownsville, focusing on space and energy technologies.
During the virtual event, presenters will delve into their programs, share stories on how they got involved with NASA, and highlight the startup companies born out of Expanding Frontiers.
There will be a Q&A session where you can ask questions. Register now to learn more about how this non-profit has become an integral part of the South Texas community!
Dr. Fredrick Jenet is the founder and executive director of Expanding Frontiers, a nonprofit organization based in Brownsville, Texas, with a mission to foster the growth of a commercial space ecosystem. Dr. Jenet is an experienced entrepreneur, visionary researcher, and
innovative educator, having founded several initiatives in Texas that are fostering the development of a state and national ecosystem for space exploration and commercialization. He is the founder of the Center for Advanced Radio Astronomy, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s first center of excellence, as well as STARGATE, a NewSpace technology development program with facilities at the Boca Chica launch complex in South Texas.
He is also the founder of Rockets and Rigs, an academic/industry/government collaboration working to solve common problems and challenges in both the space development and energy
sectors. Dr. Jenet graduated from MIT with an S.B. in Physics in 1993 and obtained his PhD in
physics from Caltech in 2001. He was a senior research scientist at Schlumberger Doll research laboratory and a Postdoctoral Scholar at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
