The future of mission design.
The future of mission design.
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HoloAstro is a patent-pending 3D augmented reality tool designed to make mission design easier for users of all experience levels. Users can design trajectories by manipulating 3D digital holograms with their hands (instead of doing complicated math).
HoloAstro is also highly customizable, thanks to its Python API. You can script your own dynamics, algorithms, and more. You can even plug in your favorite existing trajectory design software tools and interact with them in our 3D holographic environment.
Whether you're a mission designer, an astrodynamics professor, or an aerospace student, HoloAstro can help you chart your course.
In the News
In the News
"[A] revolutionary augmented reality tool that's transforming space mission design."
— Aviation Week
Aviation Week: Engineers Kept Asking—PhD Student Built ‘Google Maps For Space’
Denver7: CU Boulder PhD student designs user-friendly map of space
9News: CU Boulder Ph.D. student creates tool to help plan space missions
Colorado Public Radio: Meet the 24-year-old Coloradan building a ‘MapQuest’ for space missions
CU Boulder Today: Google Maps for space? One grad student is making it happen
Smead Aerospace: PhD student designing augmented reality for space missions
The Team
The Team
Publications
Publications
HoloAstro (originally ASTROMECH) was invented by CEO David Dezell Turner during his PhD research, which resulted in the following publications:
Papers:
Presentations and Preprints:
Turner, D. D. & McMahon, J. W. (2026, July 26-30). Augmented Reality-Enabled Synchronous Collaborative Mission Design in HoloAstro [Conference Presentation]. 2026 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Whistler, BC, Canada.
Posters:
Turner, D. D. and McMahon, J. W. (2025, May 16-18). Enabling Intuitive Cislunar Trajectory Design Using Augmented Reality [Poster session]. Smead Symposium, Avon, CO, United States.
D. D. Turner and J. W. McMahon (2023, May 19-21). ASTROMECH: Astrodynamics Software for Tradespace Optimization and Manual Exploration using Computer-generated Holograms [Poster session]. Smead Symposium, Vail, CO, United States.
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