My time at:
Spacecraft: (September 2024 - Present)
Blue Ghost is Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander, contracted through NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Essentially, other organizations and institutions need their equipment on the moon, and we deliver it there with our Blue Ghost vehicle.
Blue Ghost is Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander, contracted through NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Essentially, other organizations and institutions need their equipment on the moon, and we deliver it there with our Blue Ghost vehicle.
My title is Assembly, Integration, and Test Engineer II, which makes me one of four integration engineers and technicians working on the vehicle.
And what a fantastic team of people I've stumbled my way onto.
Shortly after I joined the company, our first lander (BGM1) returned from environmental testing at JPL. So I've been tasked with post-test refurbishment and repair, getting our beauty ready for her launch in early 2025.
Shortly after I joined the company, our first lander (BGM1) returned from environmental testing at JPL. So I've been tasked with post-test refurbishment and repair, getting our beauty ready for her launch in early 2025.
I'm also overhauling our work environment; shadowboxing our toolboxes, reorganizing our consumables, and developing a remotely accessible system that monitors the cleanroom environment (temp, humidity, particle counts, etc.) and sends alarms when the parameters near noncompliance.
Blue Ghost marks the first industry project I've worked on that has no involvement from the U.S. Military. Perhaps unremarkable to most, this element is extremely important to me and plays a major role in my job satisfaction and self-esteem.
As of writing, I've only been working on Blue Ghost for about three months. I look forward to being able to tell you more about it as the world keeps spinning. Think of all the stories that haven't happened yet!
The launch of our first mission is coming up this January, and while I have the utmost confidence in our baby Blue... it sure would be nice to know how that's gonna go.
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