TEKNOFEST Model Satellite Competition
30% lower hardware failure rate
I led a 5+ person engineering team as team captain and designed the satellite's power distribution and energy management architecture.
- Year
- Aug 2025
- Role
- Team Captain · Energy Management
- Stack
- Energy Management, Power Distribution, System Integration
About the project
For the TEKNOFEST Model Satellite Competition, our team built a model satellite that collects data during its descent and sends it to a ground station. From January to August 2025 I worked both as team captain and as the engineer responsible for energy and power distribution.
Team captain
- Coordinated technical tasks across a 5+ person engineering team.
- Managed the project timeline so that mechanical, electronics and software work could progress without blocking each other.
Power distribution and energy management
On a small satellite every milliamp counts. Sensors, the radio module and the flight computer run at different voltage levels, and current spikes can make the supply unstable.
- Designed the power distribution and energy management architecture for all on-board components.
- Ensured stable voltage regulation across every component.
System integration
Subsystems that work on their own can still fail once combined. Through integration and troubleshooting work we reduced the hardware failure rate by 30%.
What I learned
Beyond the technical side, this project taught me how to steer a team toward one goal, set priorities and think about problems at the system level. It is also where my interest in energy management started — the root of my interest in EMS, BESS and solar systems today.