As an intern in the Flight Dynamics team within the Spaceflight Division (RS) at NASA Ames Research Center, much of my work was centered around Astrodynamics, Trajectory Design, and the overarching study of Orbital Mechanics. For my final project deliverable, I decided to complete a Flight Dynamics Analysis of Lunar Fly-By Altitudes and Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) Resonances With Applications to NASA's Artemis Program.

In order to supplement and automate my trajectory design workflow, I created a calculator in MATLAB which calculates the initial orbit states for a Three-Body Periodic Orbit.  This calculator reports initial position (X, Y, Z) and velocity (Vx, Vy, Vz) states for a periodic orbit in the three-body system. Ultimately, this MATLAB calculator is a supplementary add-on to the NASA JPL Three-Body Periodic Orbit Catalog and helps trajectory design engineers utilize given dimensionless data.

As an student engineer for UC Berkeley Space Technologies and Rocketry (STAR), I contributed to a team of 15 undergraduate student engineers focused on launching the team's first liquid rocket, ALULA. In my role as an avionics engineer, I was one of the responsible engineers for ALULA's State Machine, which was critical for static-fire (hotfire) and launch operations.  The goal of this State Machine was for mission operations, data collection, and acted as the main communication system for the ground and flight vehicle avionics systems. The State Machine is built with an Arduino framework utilizing ESP32 and custom-made PCBs programmed in C++ and Python.