100 km on student hardware — every gram and volt is flight-critical.
Own avionics & CDH: prove the flight computer can run the mission.
Architected the data bus, flight-computer trade, redundancy split & hazard analysis.
A review-ready baseline: doc control, ECO logic, traceable decisions.
Boost, coast, and apogee at 100 km is the number that anchors everything: power budget, logging duration, and recovery timing. Every avionics decision traces back to surviving this curve.
A year-long CubeSat feasibility study needed a defensible comms path.
Own communications — turn mission intent into an RF architecture.
Derived downlink volume & pass timing; ran a COTS radio/antenna trade study.
A positive-margin baseline with documented assumptions for design review.
Coursework demanded real attitude & orbital dynamics, not toy models.
Build verified orbital-propagation, attitude and rendezvous models.
Implemented a quaternion-based 6-DOF simulation in MATLAB & Simulink.
Damped attitude response verified against analytical cases.
Level-1 certification, solo: sized in OpenRocket & SolidWorks (CG/CP, motor), built and integrated recovery — clean launch, safe recovery.