All eyes are on Cape Canaveral today as the New Glenn rocket has launched into space. The rocket, made by Blue Origin, is carrying two twin probes as part of NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to learn more about the solar wind’s interaction with Mars and its magnetic environment.
Celebrating the fruit of her labors is alumna Denisse Aranda ’10, who works on the New Glenn heavy-lift rocket.
Aranda is a principal space systems contamination control engineer at Blue Origin. As a level 5 engineer, Aranda is recognized as a “subject matter expert,” a distinction achieved by less than 5% of the company’s engineers.
In her role, Aranda leads the team that keeps Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket and the cargo the rocket carries, as clean as they need to be before, during and after the launch. She’s the lead contamination control engineer for the 320-plus-foot New Glenn rocket, owning the end-to-end cleanliness plan for the rocket’s architecture and other flight hardware.
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