Landon Kamps selected for “Innovators Under 35 Japan 2021”

Landon Kamps, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, was selected as one of the “Innovators Under 35 Japan 2021.” The award ceremony was held in Tokyo last December, and the winners are now nominated for this year’s “Innovators Under 35” award.

Landon Kamps (right) at the award ceremony held in Tokyo last December. (Photo Courtesy of MIT Technology Review Japan)

The “Innovators Under 35” is a prestigious international award sponsored by the MIT Technology Review, the media division of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. The award aims to discover creative and talented young innovators under the age of 35 who are working to solve global issues and shape the future over the next several decades.

“Innovators Under 35 Japan” is the Japanese edition of the awards established in 2020. This time, 15 winners were selected from over 350 candidates who applied for the awards in the categories of Computer/Electronics, Software, Transportation (Space Development), Internet, AI/Robotics, Communications, and Energy/Sustainability. The winners, including Landon Kamps who was awarded in the Transportation (Space Development) category, are nominated for this year’s “Innovators Under 35” award.

Based at the Laboratory of Space Systems (Prof. Harunori Nagata), Landon Kamps has been researching and developing a “kick motor,” or an orbit-transfer rocket, to enable safe and low-cost transportation between space hubs and final destinations.

Landon Kamps said, “I am very honored. This is a great opportunity to introduce the space propulsion technology being developed jointly by my startup company, Letara Ltd., and Hokkaido University’s Graduate School of Engineering. We will continue to make every effort to expand human economic activity into space.”

For more information, please visit the Innovators Under 35 Japan website.

https://events.technologyreview.jp/iu35/