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As Program Lead
As Program Lead
- Leading a team of 30+ students, including 8 subsystem leads, contributing to two active CubeSat missions.
- Designed and ran the team’s Intro Series, an 8-session onboarding program covering:
- Satellite subsystems and architecture
- Space-specific engineering challenges (radiation, thermal extremes, SWaP-C constraints)
- Subsystem design through literature reviews, budget analysis (power, link, data), and prototyping
- Hosting and leading two weekly leads' coordination meetings to synchronize efforts across all subsystem teams.
- Collaborating with five other university teams as part of the Pleiades-Five mission (a coordinated multi-satellite constellation project)
- Started the team’s central hub and documentation space to make it easier to share information, stay organized, record major work, document findings, and display progress. Authored about half of all current (as of 2025) content and designed the layout. Motivated leads and active members to consistently contribute.
- Coordinating the development of the ADCS-Imager payload across Avionics, Mechanical, and ADCS teams while troubleshooting integration and technical bottlenecks across subsystems
- Contributing to writing and designing the satellite mission objectives, requirements, success criteria, and planning the experiment and the Concept of Operations (CONOPS)
Some cool experiences!
Some cool experiences!
Attending SmallSat Conference (and Partaking in the Poster Competition)
Attending SmallSat Conference (and Partaking in the Poster Competition)
We didn't win the competition but we did get our poster published in the proceedings! In general, it was awesome to get to hear about the current research efforts and the recent technological developments in the industry from professionals and experts across the country. I had a fun time chatting with those from other universities, labs, and perusing the booths of some of the cool private companies that flew in to showcase their products! This conference overall was a blast, and I can't wait for more experiences like it!
Machining and Assembling a Coil for Our MCCATS Project
Machining and Assembling a Coil for Our MCCATS Project
This coil was quite the ordeal to set up, move, and store due to its sheer size. I'll also add that wrapping 8 pounds of wire just to realize it had shorted somewhere along the way truly inspired some character development (and remains a reminder of the value in proper planning and engineering foresight)! During its construction, we also got featured by our school's news and got to take some cool photos! See the article written about our work in the club here!
Attempting to Receive Telemetry From the 1U Pleiades-Orpheus Satellite in -12 deg C (10 deg F) New England Weather!
Attempting to Receive Telemetry From the 1U Pleiades-Orpheus Satellite in -12 deg C (10 deg F) New England Weather!
Here's the rotator in action! I needed to properly connect the controller and rotator using an 8-conductor cable and then determine a way to control the controller from a laptop. I found a GitHub repository that helped us interface between GPredict and the controller. eventually, the rotator could be successfully controlled via 2 sockets (1 for azimuth control and 1 for elevation) of a laptop!
MicrosoftTeams-video.mp4I ended up cracking open our rotator controller out of curiosity to find this diamond mine!
Attending UNP's Intensive Satellite Workshop and Kickoff Event!
Attending UNP's Intensive Satellite Workshop and Kickoff Event!
This event offered valuable insights into best practices and systems engineering principles essential for successful satellite missions and it was an honor to be able to partake in it and receive feedback and guidance from university PI, industry professionals, and other experts.
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