Lydon Kersting: Dragon Ground Operations Launch Engineer in Cape Canaveral, FL
Lydon Kersting
Dragon Ground Operations Launch Engineer
Cape Canaveral | United States
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SpaceX
Dragon Ground Operations Launch Engineer | 07/2019 - Current
-Designing device for space suit leak and communications checks prior to flight
-Primary loader of breathing air and life support fluids onto spacecraft
-Designing panels for spacecraft propellant decontamination post-flight
-Load hypergol propellant onto spacecraft
-Ownership and maintenance of pneumatics, purge, breathing air, chilled water systems in spacecraft processing facility
SpaceX
Dragon Ground Operations Intern | 03/2018 - 05/2018
• Adapted Dragon 2 spacecraft conditioning purge for processing facility
• Designed and analyzed Dragon 2 crew and cargo loading doorstep
• Developed decontamination vacuum oven heating system, negotiated $160,000 trade
• Designed, analyzed, and tested Draco engine plug mechanism
Blue Origin
Mechanical Systems Intern | 09/2017 - 11/2017
• Designed, analyzed, and tested subscale version of New Glenn stage separation mechanism
• Procured and built DAQ and test rig, wrote test plan, executed high speed tests on console
• Test results informed design of full-scale stage separation mechanism
Sandia National Labs
Engineering Design & Integration Intern | 06/2017 - 08/2017
• Designed backshells and HALT/HASS vibration fixture for rigid-flex cables
• Performed modal analyses on cables and baseplate to determine failure frequencies
• Performed Weibull analyses on bent cables to determine fatigue cycles to failure
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Intern | 06/2016 - 08/2016
Designed 6 DOF tool to assemble Retention & Release Mechanism in Orion Crew Module
Princeton Organic & Polymer Electronics Lab
Researcher | 06/2015 - 02/2016
• Planned, executed X-ray diffraction experiments on perovskite solar cell degradation
• Test results informed understanding of inherent perovskite stability
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Princeton University
BSE | 2014 - 2019
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