I started working at NASA GRC in January 2023. I was exploring ideas for my senior design project in Fall 2022.
My controls professor at Akron, Dr. Daniel Raible, had work available on his team at GRC and offered me an internship.
This was a very exciting opportunity so of course I accepted. Dr. Raible is the principle investigator (PI) of the High-Rate Delay Tolerant Network (HDTN) project.
Delay tolerant networking (DTN) is the chosen solution for interplanetary networking.
Delay tolerant networks seeks to provide internet like capabilities in space where disconnections and delays cause terrestrial protocols to fail.
In space, orbital mechanics cause frequent disruptions as assets become blocked by other celestial bodies. Additionally, the vast distance between assets
creates long and unavoidable delays. New protocols are being developed to better handle these challenges. HDTN is a good implementation of these protocols written in a modular, open-source, C++ framework.
I have included some photos from my time at Glenn below.
With my mentor, Dr. Daniel Raible
Coding photoshoot in the lab
Running SOAP simulation to generate satellite contact plans
