{"id":60193,"date":"2021-03-23T17:30:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=60193"},"modified":"2021-03-23T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T17:30:20","slug":"melony-mahaarachchi-an-mba-student-at-cambridge-cambridge-mba-student-pivotal-to-nasa-mars-rover-space-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/melony-mahaarachchi-an-mba-student-at-cambridge-cambridge-mba-student-pivotal-to-nasa-mars-rover-space-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Melony Mahaarachchi, an MBA student at Cambridge  &#8211; Cambridge MBA student pivotal to NASA Mars Rover space mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #008080;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Melony Mahaarachchi, an MBA student at Cambridge \u00a0&#8211;<\/span><\/b><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Cambridge MBA student pivotal to NASA Mars Rover space mission<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60194 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Melony-Mahaarachchi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9EiWsPwrpnA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800000;\"><b>She had obtained her primary and secondary education from the Girls\u2019 High School in Mount Lavinia and the Holy Family Convent in Bambalapitiya<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">By the time Melony began her MBA studies at Judge in 2019, she had already achieved very high aspirations in every sense of the word.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">She moved with her family to the United States from Sri Lanka, building a career in aerospace after graduating from UCLA with a degree in mechanical engineering \u2013 and has since worked at SpaceX, Boeing and NASA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Melony was a lead engineer of the Mars Rover 2020 mission at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California before beginning her studies last year at Cambridge Judge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The Perseverance Rover is due to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, with a launch window of July 20 to August 11, and is scheduled to land in the Jezero Crater on Mars in February 2021, with a mission duration of at least one Mars year (about 687 Earth days).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Melony says: \u201cNASA\u2019s Mars programme has never attempted to design a fully digital mockup of any electrical subsystem before because of its complexity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cI was leading the internal cabling design and communication system with a team of six to help them achieve this feat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The mission calls for the car-sized Rover to be the first of the eponymous series to attempt to bring Mars soil samples back to Earth. It is also the first mission with a helicopter specifically designed to fly on another planet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60195 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/NASA-Mars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The NASA Mars Perseverance Rover. Image courtesy of NASA<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cWhen the Mars Rover launches, I will be immensely proud. The mission is the thing that always excites me,\u201d Melony says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Previous missions in Melony\u2019s career included her first job after graduation from UCLA, with Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cI was able to learn a lot from Elon Musk as the founder of SpaceX. I have always got dragged into new projects and designs, where sometimes Elon would sit with our team and he would give his input, like a working teammate, rather than a founder.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">When SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon launched on 30 May, delivering two astronauts to the International Space Station, Melony noted that the engine subsystem designs and second-stage cameras she worked on there were still in use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">She later moved to Boeing, where she worked on designing commercial aircraft and employee engagement before being contacted by NASA about the Mars Rover project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cThe Mars Rover programme interested me as the budget had been secured, the milestones planned out and it was a very, very ambitious programme \u2013 I knew it was going to be fast paced again. NASA was a mix between a startup and a traditional company, so it was a good balance for me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Despite the pace of her various posts, Melony has also developed a not-for-profit enterprise, iSTEM Without Borders, which supports and empowers young women in STEM (science, mathematics, engineering and technology) careers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Choosing to do an MBA was another new \u201cmission\u201d for Melony. \u201cOnce you have designed something like Mars Rover, you have set yourself so high on the bar that you cannot go and do something much simpler. That\u2019s when I decided that I wanted to come to business school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cOn the Cambridge MBA my boundaries were stretched enormously,\u201d she says. \u201cI have learned how to navigate ambiguity and understand a problem at a higher level, and how to apply solutions in a systematic way even in the absence of data. I now have a lot more faith in myself and more confidence that I will be equipped to help companies make changes within organisational cultures and systems.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">By\u00a0<strong>Tony Quested<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melony Mahaarachchi, an MBA student at Cambridge \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Cambridge MBA student pivotal to NASA Mars Rover space mission &nbsp; She had obtained her primary and secondary education from the Girls\u2019 High School in Mount Lavinia and the Holy Family Convent in Bambalapitiya By the time Melony began her MBA studies at Judge in 2019, she had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[27874,33393],"class_list":{"0":"post-60193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-melony-mahaarachchi","9":"tag-the-nasa-mars","10":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Melony Mahaarachchi, an MBA student at Cambridge - Cambridge MBA student pivotal to NASA Mars Rover space mission<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"She had obtained her primary and secondary education from the Girls\u2019 High School in Mount Lavinia and the Holy Family Convent\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Melony Mahaarachchi, an MBA student at Cambridge - Cambridge MBA student pivotal to NASA Mars Rover space mission\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"She had obtained her primary and secondary education from the Girls\u2019 High School in Mount Lavinia and the Holy Family Convent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/melony-mahaarachchi-an-mba-student-at-cambridge-cambridge-mba-student-pivotal-to-nasa-mars-rover-space-mission\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"eLanka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-23T17:30:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Melony-Mahaarachchi.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"397\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/melony-mahaarachchi-an-mba-student-at-cambridge-cambridge-mba-student-pivotal-to-nasa-mars-rover-space-mission\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/melony-mahaarachchi-an-mba-student-at-cambridge-cambridge-mba-student-pivotal-to-nasa-mars-rover-space-mission\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"eLanka admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd\"},\"headline\":\"Melony Mahaarachchi, an MBA student at Cambridge &#8211; 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