Kylie completed her B.S. at UC Davis, and is now pursuing her M.S. in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering as part of the HRVIP team. While she has broad engineering interests, her focus lies in satellite systems engineering and Attitude Determination and Controls Systems (ADCS).

Kylie is the co-lead for the HRVIP Zero-G parabolic flight demonstration of Hard Disk Drives as CubeSat reaction wheels. She has flown on four parabolic flights and is excited for the project’s final flight campaign in November 2022! Kylie works in an interdisciplinary role, including mechanical/electrical design, controller design, flight software development, operations/testing, project management, and mentoring. Her love for satellite systems engineering started during her undergraduate studies, when she helped lead the development of the low-cost ADCS for REALOP, UC Davis’ first satellite mission, through the UCD Space and Satellite System’s Club.

Kylie has recently interned with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) on the Attitude Control System development of satellite missions such as PACE, BurstCube, and SNOOPI; she also interned for a year with NASA’s Johnson Flight Center (JSC) working on characterization & testing of thermal runaway in Li-Ion batteries, and at Pacific Scientific Engineering Materials Company where she supported the research and development lab with rocket nozzle sizing, mechanical design, and energetic qualification testing. 

When she’s not building satellites, Kylie enjoys escaping to the outdoors to hike and explore. Kylie is an avid swimmer, but she’s also walked on water a couple times (with the help of some creative engineering)!