NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mission Design and Navigation Group (392C) (10/2022 – Present)
- Mars Sample Return Mission Analysis and Flight Path Control
- Full-time employment beginning June 2023
Continuum-Space
Mission Design and Operations (05/2022 – 08/2022)
- Tasked to learn and utilize JPL’s high-fidelity, low thrust optimizer, Mystic.
- Designed example cases that incorporate customer-specific requirements.
- Investigating the implementation of Mystic into existing company software tools.
- Created Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) to Low Lunar Orbit (LLO) medium fidelity model
- Creating Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) to Geostationary Orbit (GEO) orbit simulations
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mission Design and Navigation Group (392C) (05/2021 – 07/2021)
- Assessed the navigability of several full ephemeris low-energy trajectories to Europa.
- Used MONTE, an in-house astrodynamics Python library, to evaluate applicability of linear propagation methods for this highly non-linear dynamical system.
- Improved delivery to Europa and reduced along-track errors without a ΔV penalty.
- Ran and compared several linear and non-linear maneuver optimization Monte Carlo Simulations.
- Findings presented at 2021 AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference (AUG.)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mission Design and Navigation Group (392K) (09/2019 – 12/2019) (06/2020 – 11/2020)
- Assisting with the development of a new maneuver simulation data visualization tool.
- Learning about statistical maneuver design, tour design, and maneuver placement
- Working with JPL’s MONTE and LAMBIC software tools to learn about and create reference trajectories and maneuvers.
- Findings presented at 2021 AAS Spaceflight Mechanics Conference (FEB.)
Aerovironment
GNC/Aeromechanical Group (05/2019 – 08/2019)
- Worked on creating navigation algorithms for efficient flight plan generation for light aerial mapping UAVs.
- Involved with concept of operations and performance estimation for light mapping UAV concept.
- Researched viability of a military VTOL Group 3 UAV using multidisciplinary design optimization (various subsystem sizing and requirements including: power, thrust, wing size/lift, endurance estimates, and systems + payload)