Arwen Dave

Arwen Davé serves as flight systems engineer at NASA ARC, where she has worked with Mars, Moon, orbital, and atmospheric flight hardware. Recently acquired skills include lunar mission operations for the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) as an instrument operator for the Neutron Spectrometer System. 

Ms Davé has been a Project Manager for 10+ years, with background in 14 successful manned and robotic missions, 25 prototype development efforts, and over 90 proposals. Ms Davé transitioned from troubleshooting machines to overseeing systems to helping groups work better together. She has worked on the giant solar array masts that power the International Space Station, tested a drill for Mars, upgraded the water recycling system for astronauts, organized a moon-and-Mars gravity parabolic flight, and coordinated a simulated rover mission in the Atacama Desert in Chile.

Her contributions to the NASA ARC Flight Instrument Group (FIG) include the development of weather and geologic context-related instruments Mars Sonic Anemometer, the Mars Doppler Wind & Thermal Sounder (DWTS), and a wind-born dust saltation sensor.