An Average Working Day on Visionary NASA Projects
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Starts at 16, now 12 years and six missions later, working radiation chambers that tested components later flown on Mars Curiosity, building the mechanical elbow that designed the deployable boom hinge for GPM solar arrays, and acting as deputy lead integration engineer for the IEC electronics box on the $13 billion James Webb which flies to L2 ~1.5 million km with no servicing hatch. Leads database work for JPSS ground‑to‑space command and telemetry and now focuses on physical and cyber satellite defense, with hands‑on cost saves (vinyl floor vs $1.2M option) that actually work.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:33Lunar Gateway
- 5:00NASA internship
- 6:20Working on MS
- 9:50Mentor Anthony Sanders
- 12:34MMs
- 16:00Deployables
- 20:04Home Depot
- 21:19Sharing your ideas
- 26:04James Webb Space Telescope
- 26:24NASA Software Development
- 29:24Satellite Development
- 30:24James Webb
- 34:29Electronic Components
- 36:29Off the Shelf Parts
- 38:54Satellite Defense
- 40:34Future Trends
- 45:49International Collaborations
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