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2023
Astra
Launch Vehicle Propulsion Intern
Location: Alameda, CA
As my first introduction to "big boy" liquid engines, Astra was an exciting pivot for me as I had been working only with collegiate liquids and industry hybrids until this point. Throughout the summer of 2023 I worked at the Skyhawk and Orion buildings of Astra with the launch vechicle propulsion team.
I was originally paired with Astra as part of the Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program, and was excited from what I had heard from classmates that had interned and worked at Astra in previous years. during my time with the company, I was helping the propulsion team work towards completing design and test of the new launch vehicle, Rocket 4.
I split my time across a few medium tasks for both first stage and upper stage propulsion systems. I did design work for TPA proof tooling, and worked to bring up a checkout stand to an operational state. Additionally, I worked on and eventually ran small scale tests including torch testing and fatigue testing, culminating in data processing and review.
2022
Virgin Galactic
Propulsion Test Intern
Location: Mojave, CA
Virgin Galactic was my first exposure to a larger company, being more than an order of magnitude step up from Parabilis. Between the end of my undergraduate degree and the start of my master's degree, I spent the summer in the Mojave desert at Mojave Air and Space Port.
I was lucky enough to be able to combine my love for the desert and my love for rockets (although I will admit that those two things are frequently overlapping) while working at VG's test site at MASP. Despite not actively hotfiring, the test site was busy, with the propulsion test team working to upgrade the test stand and prepare it for a greater test cadence once reactivated.
As part of this work, one of my major tasks was to update the master assembly for the test stand to both reflect as-built changes, as well as new additions to the test stand. Additionally, I designed and pushed several GSE components/assemblies through manufacturing. On the operations side, I assisted in the initial effort to convert legacy paper procedures into a cloud-based format on the Epsilon3 procedure management service.
2021
Parabilis Space Technologies
Engineering Intern
Location: San Marcos, CA
Parabilis Space Technologies was the official start to my engineering career. In late spring of 2021 I started as a part time intern with Parabilis, converting to full time at the end of the spring semester.
Parabilis is a small company (consisting of only 16 people when I started) that primarily works on Small Business Innovation Research contracts with various government and government-affiliated organizations. I started at a very busy time when several contracts were in work, progressing towards hardware validation or design reviews.
My work consisted of many small tasks, with a few larger items supporting high priority contracts. Hardware work included assisting in the construction of a hotfire test cart, ox cleaning fluid components, and design/fabrication of processing equipment, among others. One of the more major design tasks that I worked on was a casting setup for a large hybrid fuel grain to prove out a large e-pumped motor.
