Madison Gleydura is a graduate student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University studying Engineering Physics and is researching the uses of commercial off-the-shelf duel-band GNSS receivers to predict floods in central and southern Appalachia. Additionally, Madison mentors the university’s undergraduate CubeSat team, is a Peer Mentor at the campus’s Office of Undergraduate Research, and teaches Physics III lab for physics majors.

Madison was a participant in our first ever Satellite Week in 2017. Since then, Madison has participated first as a mentor and documenting our 2018 and 2019 camps, and is now a year-round team member, leading our technology development team. They have also interned with Team Miles, working on their Deep Space CubeSat which launches on Artemis-I in November of 2022 where they helped with documentation, CAD design, structural analysis, and data interpretation. This spacecraft had Destination SPACE space weather instruments aboard it, which would have been used to educate K-12 students across the country about space weather in deep space. Madison also interns with Psionic Technologies, based in Hampton, Virginia. They are using NASA Langley’s Navigation Doppler Lidar (NDL) technology for ground and space navigation applications where they developed circuit boards, characterized equipment and sensors, designed and derating components for space environment, and wrote firmware for their systems, primarily in C++.