Meet Ghanaian Scientist, Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, The Innovator Who Helped NASA Deploy A lander On The Surface Of Mars

In 2018, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) successfully landed their InSight Lander Spacecraft on one of the closest planetary neighbors of Earth- Mars.

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The mission aims to dig deeper beneath the surface and investigate Mars’ genetic makeup.

Among the team of NASA scientists who worked on the mission, Ghanaian scientist, Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, an innovator helped NASA to deploy the lander on the surface of Mars.

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As a child in Ghana, Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu watched planes take off and was inspired by the possibility of autonomous aircrafts.

Today he is the innovator robotically deploying and installing landers autonomously on other planets.

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Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu is a Chief Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Robotics department of NASA and has worked there since 1999; over 20 years.

He led the team for the Instrument Deployment System- a system which consists of a robotic arm and two cameras- whose main responsibility was picking up instrument that would explore Mars and installing it on the surface of the planet.

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Describing some details of his work on the mission, he said: “We have to make sure that when our robots pick up the instruments, they don’t drop them.

“So we designed a grab hole that basically when it’s closed, the power is off so that when somethings happens, the instrument will still be safe.

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Further stating that: “When we are going to deploy the instrument on Mars, we practice to make sure that everything is going work successfully and then we run on Mars.

As InSight continues on its mission to collect data on Mars, Ollennu hope it will help his team gain a better understanding of how rock planets like Earth and Mars form.

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Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu disclosed the reason why he likes being an engineer is solving problems. For him, it doesn’t matter what the problem is, he would just jump in and solve the problem because it brings a lot of joy.

Adding that its the challenge of solving problems hundreds of million miles away that excites him.

Source: AfricaCelebrities.com