McKenna Cisler

Mckenna came to Brown in Fall 2016 from New Hampshire, intending to major in computer science. He joined the "flight software" team of Brown Space Engineering as the club was two years away from launching its first satellite, EQUiSat, and eventually contributed to several components of the satellite's operating system. After EQUiSat deployed successfully and began functioning in July 2018, Mckenna worked on ground software, telemetry analysis, and radio systems (he had received his Amateur Radio license that year), and was elected as the technical lead of the club. As EQUiSat continued to perform admirably for the rest of 2018 and into 2019, the club began to transition to planning the next satellite. Mckenna helped apply what he had learned working on EQUiSat to the club's efforts to design FutureSat, and today the club is working toward submitting an application for launch in Fall 2019.