Light sail deployment simulation
Simulation of on-orbit free-flying light sail deployment from the Cornell Alpha CubeSat, developed and choreographed in Unreal Engine 4. Alpha will carry the world's first retroreflective, solo-flying light sail and become the trailblazer for future missions to our nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri.
Detecting Cloud Cover from Space Using Infrared Sensors (Miami Young Data Scientists)
We had the opportunity to run our code on-orbit aboard Spire Global's Lemur 2 NanoSatellite as part of a winning experimental machine learning entry in the 2015 Association of Space Explorers (ASE) Astrosat Challenge.
Data collection was constrained to 15 kilobytes, approximately 1500 observations, from an equatorial orbit. Used a support vector machine approach on infrared emissivity data to predict cloud cover, validated with live weather APIs.
Achieved approximately 75% accuracy in the binary classification problem (is it a cloud or not?).
My teammate and I delivered our findings to the local Miami tech community with the Countdown Institute and taught introductory space and data science to local students.
