Lauren Citkowski
MiTEE team: Miniature Tether Electrodynamics Experiment Space Mission Design
Mentored by Professor Brian Gilchrist
Major: Aerospace Engineering, Class of 2021
Lauren joined the MiTEE research team in January 2018. She was competitively selected for a fellowship to continue her research over the summer. Her work included characterizing solar cells and assembling solar panels and photodiode pyramids. She worked on photodiode-to-spacecraft coordinate transformations and attitude determination of the sun relative to the satellite.