0.5 U Satellite ADCS
CHARMSat is a novel CubeSat ADCS that simplifies attitude control by using magnetorquers alone—achieving detumble and fine pointing without reaction wheels or GPS.
Flight Software • State Machine
Senior Electrical Engineer and incoming RF Engineering Intern at United Launch Alliance. Wrote all payload Real Time Operating System (RTOS), firmware, and defined satellite operational flow. Granola boy who likes trees.
Electronic Design and Flight Qualifications • IRR
Senior Electrical Engineer and rising master's student at the University of Notre Dame's ESTEEM Entrepreurship program. Drools over power electronics and product design. Loves synthwave and gregorian chants.
Magnetorquers • Electrical System Design • Performance Testing & Analysis
Senior Computer Engineer and incoming Lunar Lander Systems Engineer at Blue Origin. Literally invented magnetorquers, system design, and performance analysis testing. Loves Ethel Cain almost as much as the color pink (token woman).
PCB Design • Hardware Bringup • Systems Validation & Test
Senior Electrical Engineer and incoming Physical Design Engineer at IBM. Designed the PCBs that definitely all worked perfectly on the first try. Loves Dave's Hot Chicken and hates BLE.
Flight Hardware • Magnetorquer Wrapper
Sophomore Mechanical Engineer at the University of Notre Dame. Magnetorquer wrapping guy. Loves spinning copper wire.
HIL Lead • Helmholtz Cage
Junior Electrical Engineer and incoming intern at Anduril. Led the team to develop the Helmholtz cage power and control system. Loves magnetic fields.
Payload Structure Lead • Design, Manufacturing, and Assembly of Payload Structure
Junior Aerospace Engineering student and incoming engineering intern at BAE Space and Mission Systems. Designed and led the efforts for mechanical payload design and magnetorquer fabrication.
Machining Lead • Manufacturing and Quality Control
Senior Aerospace Engineering student at the University of Notre Dame specializing in iterative design, manufacturing, and testing. “It’s not rocket science (it is).”
Flight Software • Controls Algorithm
Junior Computer Science major interested in cybersecurity and ADCS. Created orbital simulator that generates way too many graphs.
Defined ADCS architecture & mission profile.
Completed first board assembly and initial smoke tests.
Finished writing the payload's operational software backend and command structure.
With the system's 9th iteration, demonstrated full magnetic attitude control in Helmholtz cage.
Walked through a checklist of specifications and demonstrated our system meets standards for spaceflight.
Physically integrate with the Nearspace bus in Upland, IN, alongisde demonstrations of operational readiness.