Brett Bender

Brett Bender is a Thermal Engineer at Capella Space since June 2021, with prior experience as a Mechanical/Thermal Engineer at Blue Canyon Technologies from May 2016 to June 2021. Bender's background includes work as a Discovery Learning Apprentice in the Active Remote Sensing Lab at the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, where involvement in designing a 2-axis gimbal for a Lidar system was notable. Additionally, an internship at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory focused on analyzing Mars rover operations for the Mars 2020 mission. Bender's earlier roles included an Attitude Determination and Control Engineer and an Electrical Engineer at the Colorado Space Grant Consortium, contributing to satellite systems and rocketry experiments. The educational foundation is a Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder.