L'SPACE
2025 - 2026Through NASA's L'SPACE Academy NPWEE Program, I'm the programmatics and logistics lead for O.R.I.O.N., a proposed lunar base monitoring network. Our team is designing a system that would help future crews track environmental and operational conditions around a lunar habitat, the kind of infrastructure that has to work before people ever set foot on the surface.
L'SPACE is built like a real aerospace mission: milestones, reviews, documentation, and a lot of coordination across roles. My job sits at the intersection of schedule, communication, and delivery, making sure the team stays aligned, deadlines are realistic, and nothing critical falls through the cracks as we move from concept toward a formal proposal.
What I'm working on
I own the project's programmatic backbone: the 12-month Gantt chart across all four development phases, the resource, labor, and basis of estimate sheet breaking down hours and costs per project element, and the risk register covering schedule, budget, and team coordination risk. That includes coordinating deliverables for our Month 2, 6, 9, and 12 design reviews, keeping documentation consistent, and building out milestone tracking so a distributed, 9-person cross-institutional team stays accountable to the schedule.
On the systems side, I've gotten hands-on with how a lunar monitoring network like O.R.I.O.N. gets scoped: which of the five operating domains, crew, habitat, power, rovers, and communications, actually need coverage, what assumptions we make about lunar-surface constraints like communication delay and Earth-link loss, and how our KPPs for incident detection and response time have to hold up against both engineering feasibility and real mission operations.
Why it matters
Space systems fail when the planning fails first. O.R.I.O.N. has pushed me to treat coordination as an engineering problem, not just admin work, since a lunar monitoring network is only as strong as the process that designs it.
It's also my closest look yet at how NASA-aligned student teams operate: structured, deadline-driven, and serious about turning ideas into something that could actually fly.
Proposal
Full O.R.I.O.N. proposal document from our L'SPACE NPWEE work.