I am Fabio Chiappina, and I attend the Georgia Institute of Technology, where I study aerospace engineering and computer science. This is my second year working as an intern with the a.i. solutions flight dynamics software team. I work in an entirely virtual capacity, but I still communicate often with my teammates. Our team has daily tag-up meetings where I can ask questions about my project and an active Teams channel where I regularly communicate with my coworkers.

It has been easy to re-integrate as I am already familiar with many of the team’s data review tools. This year, I continued developing my programming skills by working on more advanced scripts thoroughly integrated into the team’s workflow. I updated some older preflight data analysis automation scripts and integrated them into the existing data review workflow. I also improved the flight software team’s plotting and data analysis tools. The old version of these tools included separate scripts for preflight and postflight data analysis, with the preflight scripts further broken up into plotting and analysis. I combined all these scripts into one that handles plotting and analysis for preflight and postflight data. The new script is also robust to potential future changes in the list of parameters that the flight software team analyzes; now, it is much easier to add new parameters, and the script can skip over any missing parameters instead of erroring.

Watch the video below to meet Fabio Chiappina who supported the Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on ELVIS 3. See what he has to say about his experience this summer. Thank you, Fabio, for interning with a.i. solutions!