Melony Mahaarachchi, an MBA student at Cambridge  – Cambridge MBA student pivotal to NASA Mars Rover space mission   She had obtained her primary and secondary education from the Girls’ 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 already achieved very high aspirations in every sense of the word. 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 – and has since worked at SpaceX, Boeing and NASA. ...

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Sri Lankan-born Mars 2020 engineer who designed NASA rover’s internal electrical layout – By Ranjini Fernando Source:Adaderana The NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance rocketed away from Earth on Thursday (30) in search of signs of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. The one-tonne, six-wheeled rover was launched out of Florida by an Atlas rocket on a path to intercept the second-smallest planet of the Solar System in February next year. Foreign media reported that the robot will also gather rock and soil samples to be ferried back home later this decade.   ...

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