User:Lsein617/Farah Alibay

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=== Farah Alibay is a Canadian systems engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory who has worked on the InSight, Mars Cube One, and Mars 2020 missions. Aside from her accolades occupation-wise she also has a PhD in aeronautics and astronautics engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). ===

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=== Born in Montréal, Quebec, Alibay is the daughter of immigrants from Madagascar. She was raised in the adjacent town of Joliette, Quebec, then went to Manchester, England, with her family to attend high school and her native tongue is French. In middle school, Alibay was fascinated by the Canadian astronaut Julie Payette's space voyage since Payette was a role model for her because she was from Canada too. 2010 saw her graduate from the University of Cambridge with a bachelor's and master's degree in aerothermal and aeronautical engineering. ===

=== The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) awarded her a PhD in aeronautics and astronautics engineering in 2014. The utilization of geographically and temporally distributed multi-vehicle systems for the study of solar system planetary bodies was the main subject of her doctoral research, which she conducted under the guidance of Jeffrey Hoffman. Alibay's exceptional work as a teaching assistant in integrating Concurrent Design Facility software into the curriculum earned her the AeroAstro Graduate Teaching Assistantship Award at MIT in 2013. ===

Career
=== Following the completion of her master's degree, Alibay gained exposure to the many NASA facilities and initiatives by taking part in the NASA Academy internship at Goddard Space Flight Center. It was there that she fell in love with robotic space exploration. While pursuing her doctorate, she worked as an intern at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. After graduating in 2014, Alibay started working full-time at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Her first role was as the systems engineer on the InSight sister mission, Mars Cube One CubeSats. ===

=== She joined the InSight project in 2016 as a Payload Systems Engineer. InSight is a robotic lander spacecraft that was intended to explore the interior of the planet Mars. It launched on May 5, 2018. Alibay had overseen the correct integration and testing of every spacecraft instrument prior to launch. Alibay checked the detection equipment and assisted the teams in getting ready for operations as the mission awaited the spacecraft's landing on Mars. She got her hair dyed red to commemorate the landing on Mars on November 26, 2018, matching the color of the InSight logo. ===

=== Alibay became a member of the Mars 2020 mobility team in 2019. It was her responsibility to make sure the rover did not become lost on Mars. She served as the Tactical Integration Lead and an interface between Ingenuity and the Perseverance rover during surface activities following the landing on February 18, 2021. Alibay was a member of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory team that created Ingenuity, the first powered-controlled spacecraft to successfully take off and land on a another planet, on April 19, 2021. ===

=== In order to improve diversity and inclusivity in her workplace and to shield future generations of LGBTQ+ immigrant women of color from the same obstacles she faced, she strives to advance these causes in STEM fields. ===

Publishments
=== She has made many publishments about her projects, in an article by google scholar she discusses the increasing demand for the quick creation of a mission concept for CubeSats, NanoSats, and SmallSats at JPL and in the broader community in the Concept Maturity Level. JPL's Innovation Foundry has expanded its long-standing advanced ideas concurrent engineering team, Team X, to include a new, agile, and cooperative design capability named Team Xc in order to help meet these objectives. This concurrent team-based method offers early concept investigations for small spacecraft missions and systems with quick turnaround times. A broad range of CubeSat, NanoSat, and SmallSat clients and mission applications can be accommodated by the technique. ===

"ISSC About". Inter-Planetary Small Satellite Conference. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
=== Alibay, Farah (2014). Evaluation of multi-vehicle architectures for the exploration of planetary bodies in the Solar System (Thesis). Jeffrey A. Hoffman., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ===