Hi, I’m Kevin. I live in the boonies of Redmond, WA - about halfway between Seattle and Snoqualmie Pass.

I moved out here from Montana (go Bobcats!) and continue to be a powder snob while occasionally working on my trail-building chops.

These days I am helping Hydrosat launch their constellation of thermal imaging satellites, so that we can all enjoy the benefits of daily land-surface temperature measurements. I look for projects that allow me to blend my technical cababilities with missions that matter, so it’s a good fit.

projects¶

professional:

• Hydrosat-Loft thermal infrared demonstration mission
• Amazon Project Kuiper optical system design, I&T, and lab bring-up
• Bluefield field tests of methane sensing payload
• Arkyd-6 payload I&T, launch, and operations
• Hololens-2 optical metrology, system integration, and test

extracurriculars:

• The Spacebar collaborative Python blog project, articles coming soon
• SPIE profile including proceedings

formative years:

• Ralph Hutcheson Fellowship, Arkyd-100 design paper (my final 3 credits!)
• Montana State University SPIE chapter secretary
• Gaze Typer, assistive communication device using eye-tracking hardware
• Montana Space Grant Consortium spectrometer competition (slides, team bio)

contact¶

If you’d like to connect I can be found on LinkedIn (/in/opticsinspace/) or @opticsinspace on Twitter.

Papers:

• Comparison of vicarious and on-board infrared calibration sources for small satellites Lalli & Soenen, 2021

Presentations

• The Arkyd-6 mid-wave infrared instrument: ground testing, commissioning, and operations Lalli, 2018
• CubeSats for action: A MWIR instrument guiding decisions in precision agriculture Lalli et al., 2017