Tytanan (Ty) Burney Email & Phone Number

Lanham, Md

Orion Artemis II Optical (O2O) Communications- Integrated command and telemetry for a superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD) into ground station software for spacecraft optical communications.- Authored system level procedures to demonstrate performance data interfaces with mission operations and real time telemetry displays. JWST Flight Dynamics Ground System- Developed a Java/JavaFX based ground system to perform flight dynamics analysis for the James Webb Space Telescope.- Built a dashboard to view near real-time and archived telemetry data with interactive visualizations using the python packages Bokeh and Pandas.

Riverdale, Md

Laurel, Md

- Analyzed performance of guidance and control software for the Parker Solar Probe to ensure attitude control response to contingencies met mission acceptable outcomes.- Developed acceptance test cases to validate software operating on flight hardware.- Scripted MATLAB plotting routines to aggregate and visualize dozens of fault cases run simultaneously on a parallel computing cluster.

Ithaca, Ny

- Developed software to integrate multiple Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) and other sensors- Improved data collection rates by removing bottlenecks for displaying data on a real-time GUI- Designed a communications architecture to transmit data from a Raspberry Pi- Operated data collection software onboard a Zero-G microgravity flight to measure the dynamics of a novel magnetic flux-pinned interface for spacecraft rendezvous applications.

Ithaca, Ny

- Set up an ad-hoc wireless network with a Raspberry Pi for remote sensor data collection.- Implemented a complementary filter to estimate angular displacement from gyroscope rate data.- Derived velocity and acceleration using filters to smooth discrete differentiation of position data.

Pasadena, Ca

- Operated data collection software and hardware in the Small Satellite Dynamics Testbed (SSDT).- Developed MATLAB scripts to process accelerometer, gyroscope, and visual tracking data.- Created semi-automated scripts to synchronize data from independent senors.

Ithaca, Ny

- Managed the construction of high power rockets for the NASA Student Launch competition. - Delegated tasks, reviewed parts lists, and developed procedures for flight tests. - Analyzed altimeter data to modify flight simulations and improve altitude predictions.

Ithaca, Ny

- Designed, built, and integrated payload deployment mechanisms- Co-authored documentation for preliminary, critical, and flight readiness reviews

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering, 3.96

Education record

Activities and Societies: Botball Robotics, Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC), NASA Student Launch Initiative, National Honor.