Lead development, testing and integration of the FREND instrument for ESA’s TGO: workflow organization, requirements definition and prioritization, HW, SW, Mechanical engineering coordination. Spacecraft interfaces (mechanical, electrical, thermal, EMC) control, quality assurance, testing and validation process planning and execution, physical lab calibration campaigns organization, contractual work, technical documentation.

Delivered support for ESA’s PILOT-D instrument integration onboard Roscosmos’ LUNA-25 lander. Supervised and verified interface control documentation to match spacecraft requirements, point of contact for ESA and the Russian industry, supported ESA’s testing campaign (control of test procedures and test reports), administered integration and testing onboard the spacecraft in Russia.

Supervised architecture and development of the LUNA-25 science ground segment, a software system handling operations planning, sequencing, and real-time data processing. This system provides user interface to build and verify operational plans, considers operational constraints, ingests instrument sequences, and exports it to a format required by the spacecraft. Backend provides plans and sequences storage, mechanisms for validation and export, incoming data processing, distribution and quick visualization tools.

Built technical requirements for the system and maintained traceability matrix. Drafted interface documentation to manage interaction with external spacecraft systems.

Responsible for developer team workflow management, tasks review, testing/validation of the system. 

Conducted ground and flight operations of HEND, BTN-M1, LEND, DAN, MGNS, FREND instruments.

Developed, validated, and tested instruments’ command sequences during scientific operations planning.

Performed daily flight data receipt and technical analysis to monitor instruments’ health and performance.

Representative of DAN instrument in NASA’s MSL (Curiosity rover) for daily operations together with the MSL science team: planning, sequencing, validation, data receipt and analysis.

Technically led Roscosmos’ LUNA-25 science instruments operations: provided scientific and technical operational planning, interaction with instrument teams, development, testing and validation of complex ground and flight sequences. Created fault detection, isolation and recovery algorithms, onboard data management rules.

Delivered software for ground support equipment (GSE) in BTN-M1 and M2, LEND, DAN, FREND, MGNS projects (embedded Linux environments). This software operates within a custom-built hardware, including low-level interactions with it. GSE mimics power and data interfaces of a spacecraft for the instrument, allowing control and data acquisition, and is used during development and testing phases.

Created an architecture and implemented scientific databases for storage and handling of BTN-M1, LEND, DAN, FREND, MGNS data (MSSQL, Postgres, MySQL). These databases store low- and high-level data of the instruments, and some auxiliary data. Database architecture and user tools were designed to support full life cycle of instruments, starting from development and testing stage, and up to flight data handling. User tools allow ingestion of raw and auxiliary data into the database, its querying according to user’s demands.

Created data visualization software for BTN-M1, LEND, DAN, FREND, MGNS instruments for Windows environment, with files or database as inputs. The software performs low-level processing of the instrument data and provides visualization for quick-look analysis of the instrument’s health and performance.