Biography

Tena is completed her M.S. degree in December 2007.  As a research assistant, she helped validate the flight IGOR GPS Receiver for the TerraSar-X satellite mission and upgraded a Kalman filter algorithm to have the capability of using not only GPS and magnetometer data, but also star tracker and gyroscope data for spacecraft position and attitude determination.

Tena was also actively involved with the FASTRAC satellite mission, which was UT’s entry in AFRL’s 3rd University Nanosatellite Competition.  During the competition, she researched the procedure, materials, and equipment required for building the solar array engineering model and then subsequently helped build the array model, which was displayed at the final competition review.  After FASTRAC was named the competition winners, she redesigned and helped build the flight solar array.