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May 25, 2025

At the beginning of freshman year, I joined the UChicago PULSE-A team, which is creating a CubeSat to prove our capability to perform free space laser communication from low Earth orbit. I joined the team as an avionics flight computer engineer and now serve as the avionics hardware department lead. During my time, I have created and tested the amplifier for the quadcell, a four quadrant photodiode, on the payload.

We presented two papers that I worked on for SmallSat 2025: Development of an Open-Source Spacecraft Bus for the PULSE-A CubeSat and Development of a Compact Optical Communications Terminal for the PULSE-A CubeSat

All documentation for the project can be found at https://docs.uchicagospaceprogram.org/