Abraham Rademacher
Systems Engineer
BioSentinel mechanical and structures lead, Abraham Rademacher, left, integration and test lead, Vaslie Manolescu, center, and electrical engineer James Milsk, right, perform a solar array deployment and gimbal motion test on the spacecraft in a clean room at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.
NASA/Dominic Hart
Academic Experience
BS, Aerospace Engineering: San Jose State University, 2009
A.A.S, Aircraft Systems Maintenance Technology: Community College of the Air Force, Maxwell-Gunter AFB, AL Instrument Rated, 2002
Private Pilot, Undergraduate Study in Professional Aviation: Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 2004
Professional Experience
Sr. Aerospace Engineer, Spacecraft and Payload design, NASA, CA 2014 – present
Aerospace Engineer, Spacecraft and Payload design, NASA, CA 2011 – 2016
Intern, Small Satellites Division, NASA, CA 6/2010 – 5/2011
Intern, Aviation Advanced Design Office, NASA, CA 7/2008 – 5/2009
B-52 Crew Chief, United States Air Force, Barksdale AFB, LA 8/1996 – 8/2003
Selected Relevant Funded Research Projects
“BioSentinel, 6U Nanosatellite for Deep-Space Biological Science”, NASA Advanced Exploration Systems program, 2013-2021
“SporeSat, Gravitational Threshold for Calcium Ion Channel Activation using a Nanosatellite Platform-Based Lab-on-a-Chip”, NASA Space Biology Program, 2012–2/2016
“CST, Collapsible Space Telescope”, NASA Ames Center Innovation Fund, 2013
Selected Relevant Peer Reviewed Publications
J. Park et al., “An autonomous lab on a chip for space flight calibration of gravity-induced transcellular calcium polarization in single-cell fern spores,” Lab Chip, vol. 17, pp. 1095–1103, 2017
Elwood F. Agasid, Kimberly-Ennico-Smith, A. Rademacher, “Collapsible Space Telescope (CST) for Nanosatellite Imaging and Observation” AIAA Small Satellite Conference, 2013
3. S. Weston et al., “NASA Small Spacecraft Technology State of the Art 2018” NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology Program, 2018