Dr. Sven Bilén, Senior Engineer
Personal Webpage: http://sedtapp.psu.edu/~sbilen
Email: sbilen@edapplications.com
Dr. Sven Bilén has considerable experience designing, building, and testing spacecraft hardware.
In 1999, he was the deputy project manager for the University of Michigan portion of NASA's Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer System (ProSEDS).
In the years 1992–96, he worked on the Shuttle Electrodynamic Tether System hardware for the first Tethered Satellite System (TSS-1) mission and its reflight (TSS-1R).
He has managed two Get Away Special payloads at Michigan and Penn State, which flew on shuttles STS-89, STS-88, and STS-108.
Dr. Bilén is the Principal Investigator for the NittanySat nanosatellite. He has developed or is developing a number of instruments that have flown or will fly on sounding rockets and orbital platforms.
He also has experience with vacuum testing programs and testing of spacecraft hardware in thermal-vacuum and in plasma environments, as well as experience with microwave circuits and electromagnetic simulation software.
People
Dr. Alec Gallimore
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Brian Gilchrist
President, Treasurer
Chief Engineer
Dr. David Morris
Operations Manager
Senior Engineer
Dr. Chris Davis
Senior Engineer
Dr. Tim Smith
Senior Engineer
Dr. Sven Bilén
Senior Engineer
Mr. Joseph Mancuso
Senior Engineer
Mr. Jonathan Zagel
Technician
Mr. Michael Rayle
Technician
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Dr. Alec Gallimore, CEO
Dr. Brian Gilchrist, President, Treasurer,
Chief Engineer
Dr. Sven Bilén, Senior Engineer
Dr. Dave Morris, Operations Manager,
Senior Engineer
Dr. Tim Smith, Senior Engineer