PILLARS Lunar Landing Shield
Oct 1, 2023
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PILLARS was a NASA BIG Idea Challenge finalist concept developed through Caltech Air and Outer Space Club. The project focused on a plume-deployed inflatable landing shield designed to reduce abrasive lunar regolith disturbance during landing. I contributed to the proposal writing and dust modeling side of the project, working across lunar systems, regolith mitigation, aerospace concept design, and team proposal development.
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Mechanical Engineering Student
I am a mechanical engineering student at Caltech interested in robotics, controls,
aerial systems, and multi-modal robot platforms. My work focuses on building and
testing physical robotic systems through flight-control integration, prototyping,
aerodynamic testing, sensing, and experimental validation.