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: timelines, task tracking, meeting cadence, and the logistics that keep a distributed student team moving. That includes coordinating deliverables for design reviews, keeping documentation consistent, and helping translate technical work into clear progress updates.
On the systems side, I've gotten hands-on with how lunar monitoring concepts get scoped: what sensors matter, what assumptions we make about the environment, and how a proposed network has to survive both engineering constraints and mission operations realities.
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.