Piper Kline

Graduate students

Piper Kline

Lead ADCS Engineer and Graduate Researcher

About

Piper received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2022. She began volunteering with the Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory during her senior year of college and was hired as an engineer after graduation. Since being hired, she has contributed to the Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem and Mission Operations for the 6U CubeSat HyTI. Piper is currently pursuing her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with her research focus on implementing Model-Based Systems Engineering for CubeSats.

Papers

  1. M. Nunes, P. Kline, I. Rashed, P. Englert, W. Edmonson (2026). "Neutron-3: A Distributed CubeSat Swarm for Three-Dimensional Radiation Field Reconstruction in Cislunar Space," Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference, #26408. https://amostech.com/TechnicalPapers/2026/Poster/Nunes1.pdf
  2. M. Nunes, P. Kline (2026). "Demonstrating a Model-Based Systems Engineering Methodology for Small Satellites," 40th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, SSC26-P1-61.
  3. S. Kim, M. Nunes, M. I. Rashed, L. Yoneshige, G. Guerrero, S. Ginoza, P. Kline (2026). "HITechSat-1: A Rapidly Integrable 3U Platform for University CubeSat Missions," 40th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, SSC26-P4-87. https://doi.org/10.26077/5ezb-q858
  4. M. Nunes, P. Kline, K. Salvador, P. Englert, W. Edmonson, C. Hardgrove, E. B. Johnson (2026). "Neutron-2: A Dual CubeSat Mission for Three-Dimensional Mapping of Neutron Radiation in Low Earth Orbit," 40th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, SSC26-RAIII-07.
  5. M. Nunes, P. Kline, W. Edmonson, P. Casau, T. Sorensen, E. Pilger (2026). "Conceptual MBSE Architecture for Autonomous and Cooperative CubeSat Swarms," Small Satellites Systems and Services Symposium (4S 2026), Paper 243.
  6. M. Nunes, P. Kline, P. Englert, C. Hardgrove, W. Edmonson, S. Ginoza (2025). "Neutron-2: Advancing Space Weather Monitoring and Anomaly Detection with a Dual CubeSat System," Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference, Art. no. 126.
  7. P. L. Kline, M. A. Nunes (2025). "Developing a Model-Based Systems Engineering Methodology for Academic CubeSat Missions," 39th Annual Small Satellite Conference.

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