Born and raised in Illinois\, Coralie hold s a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and Astronomy from the University of Ill inois\, and an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado. She leads the multi-mission Optical Navigation team at KinetX Aerospace\, the first privately held company to provide deep space naviga tion and flight dynamics expertise to NASA.
\nAt KinetX\, Coralie ha s had lead roles on the navigation teams for NASA&rsquo\;s New Horizons\, OSIRIS-REx\, Lucy\, and OSIRIS-APEX missions. Coralie&rsquo\;s work enable d the first exploration of the Pluto system and the historic sample collec tion of near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In addition to leading the OSIRIS-REx o ptical navigation team\, she co-convened the scientific investigation of B ennu&rsquo\;s active particle ejection phenomena. Coralie is currently the Deputy Navigation Chief on NASA&rsquo\;s Lucy mission to the Jupiter Troj an asteroids\, as well as supporting several commercial and government exp loration initiatives to the moon and beyond.
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