Episode 31- Dr. Farah Alibay
Holding Short
English - September 10, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBAviation Leisure Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Dr. Farah Alibay has been a Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the past seven years. She is currently a system engineer on the Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars on February 18, 2021. She has held a number of tasks on this mission, including testing its mobility system, supporting preparations for surface operations, and now leading tactical shifts during surface operations as well as being the operations interface with the Mars Helicopter technology demonstration: Ingenuity. Ingenuity performed the first powered flight on another planet in April 2021.
Prior to joining the M2020 team, Dr. Alibay worked on the inSight Mars Lander, as well as its companion: the Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats.
Dr. Alibay possesses an undergraduate and master’s degree from the University of Cambridge in the U.K., and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in Aerospace Engineering.
Dr. Farah Alibay can be found on Instagram @trifarahtops and on Twitter @farahalibay. Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory can be found on their website, as well as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @nasajpl.