Work

Purpose, in practice.

My contribution to mission operations, and a selection of the projects that inform my work.

Where I contribute

On the ground.
Part of the mission.

Spaceflight is a team effort. My part is helping keep four spacecraft healthy, responsive, and ready for what comes next.

NASA Goddard

Oct 2023 — Present

Systems Engineer · Spaceflight Operations

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Mission Operations Center · Greenbelt, Maryland

Command and monitor the four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft as part of the Mission Operations Center team.

  • Command the four MMS spacecraft while continuously monitoring spacecraft health and safety.
  • Coordinate communication-pass scheduling and build the command loads uplinked to the fleet.
  • Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve spacecraft anomalies as they arise.
  • Spacecraft Command
  • Spacecraft Telemetry
  • Mission Planning
  • Satellite Ground Systems
  • STOL
  • Anomaly Resolution

Selected work

Curiosity, put
into practice.

Engineering, simulation, and research. A few of the projects that have shaped how I approach complex systems.

Engineering project 2023

Harnessing
the Sun.

Solar array simulation

Built a 10-week satellite simulation to train spaceflight-operations students, emulating the EO-1 satellite's solar-array drive and deployment. Wired interconnected command procedures in Galaxy with database mnemonics and a continuously updating display, then hardened it through orbital-cycle debugging.

  • Satellite Simulation
  • Power Management
  • Galaxy / STOL
2022 / ResearchSpace Physiology

Research into how spaceflight reshapes the body — endocrine, nervous, reproductive, and musculoskeletal systems — and how microgravity, radiation, CO₂, and isolation disturb the body's homeostatic rhythms on short and long-duration missions.

  • Aerospace Physiology
  • Human Spaceflight
  • Research

An early exploration of the human questions behind spaceflight.

2021 / ResearchThe Microbiome & Space

Studied the microbial ecosystems behind astronaut immunity, musculoskeletal maintenance, and cognitive performance — and how pre- and probiotic countermeasures could protect crew health across long-duration exploration.

  • Space Health
  • Microbiome
  • Countermeasures

A closer look at the small systems that matter on the longest journeys.

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