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Dragon Ground Operations Launch Engineer

Logistics, Shipping & Operations

-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 

• 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

Dragon Ground Operations Intern

• 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

Mechanical Systems Intern

• 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

Engineering Design & Integration Intern

Designed 6 DOF tool to assemble Retention & Release Mechanism in Orion Crew Module

Intern

• Planned, executed X-ray diffraction experiments on perovskite solar cell degradation
• Test results informed understanding of inherent perovskite stability

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Lydon Kersting: Dragon Ground Operations Launch Engineer in Cape Canaveral, FL

Lydon Kersting

Princeton University