T-REX · NASA NIAC · 2025-Present
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Time-Resolving Explorer: an 86 GHz LEO VLBI SmallSat aimed at time-resolved video of Sgr A*, advanced to NASA NIAC final round with $175,000 in funding behind the collaboration.
Brown · JPL · Princeton · MIT Lincoln Lab · Columbia · Utah State · ~87 kg · ~22 min temporal resolution
The mission
T-REX targets ≤10% spin and mass constraints on Sagittarius A* via roughly twenty-two-minute temporal resolution at 86 GHz. The collaboration spans NASA JPL, Princeton Space Physics, MIT Lincoln Lab, Brown, Columbia, and Utah State, a distributed engineering problem as much as an astrophysics one.
What I carry
As founding engineer I lead CAD modeling of subsystems drawn from the published T-REX research program: thermal and structural analyses, quantum-link architectures, observation simulations, data-downlink calculations, and the integration work that keeps multi-institution designs from drifting apart on the page.
