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The Presidential Gold Service Award

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Founded on February 2nd, 2020, Starborn Space is committed to revolutionizing intersatellite communications by creating a modular satellite design to serve intersatellite and interplanetary communications. With each of our satellites serving as a relay station, we aim to connect Earth, Mars, and deep space missions with high speed internet connectivity.

Founder and CEO

Committee Chair, Technology Committee

Committee Member

Team Lead

- Worked on NASA's ILLUMA-T module in conjuction with planning research related to NASA's LCRD satellite.
- Learned about employing laser communications for intersatellite communications. 
- Researched potential data speeds of intersatellite and satellite-to-ground transmissions.
- Developed modules for light regulation and researched methods of effective data transmission with laser communications.

Intern: Summer 2021

- Worked alongside engineers to develop secure satellite-to-ground communications.
- Designed a prototype encryption algorithm as a result of my work with this team.
- Assigned to a team working with software development and designing a satellite modelling program.
- During my work with the team, I was tasked with developing some UI/UX components as well as preprogram component functionality to enchance user experience.
- Gave me experience with the satellite industry, specifically satellite communications.

Project Intern

- Summer of 2019 and Summer of 2020
- Worked with their Robotics Division in developing additional features on existing autonomous technologies.
- Tasked with developing features such as object detection, object avoidance, and object identification.
- Prior to my work with the Robotics Division, in 2019, I was assigned to a team of fellow interns and tasked with developing solutions for their software development.

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