About VagaLune SarL

VagaLune SarL is a group of graduate engineers in the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech faced with the problem of designing a one launch program to send an autonomous rover to the moon to capture video and still photography and relay this information back to an Earth station. The corporate name was chosen as a combination of vagabond and the word lune, which is French for the moon. SarL is solely a corporate extension for a private French company.

Member	Title	Tasks	Email
Ben Clarke	Webmaster, Electronics Lead Engineer	Web Design, Lunar Geography, Link Budget/Antennae	ben dot clarke AT gatech
Bryon Doyle	Avionics Lead Engineer	Propulsion/Trajectory Systems, Software	doyle dot bryon AT gmail
Azhar Hasan	Lead Financial Manager	Comm Design, Business & Financial Mgmt	azhar dot hasan AT gatech
Manu Raghavan	Systems Engineer	Communications Design	manur AT gatech
Michael Smith	Systems Engineer, Lead Test Engineer	Communications Design	grantham dot michael AT gatech

Manu Raghavan was born in Madras, India in 1984. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006. From 2005 to 2006, he worked as a test engineer at Motorola Energy Systems in Lawrenceville, Georgia and at NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, California. He is currently working toward an M.S. in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech with a focus on physical-layer telecommunications and media-related digital signal processing.		Ben Clarke was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1984. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 2007. From 2003 to 2005 he worked as a design engineer for the Appliances division of General Electric in Louisville, Kentucky. He is currently working toward an M.S. in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech with research on OFDM application to fibre optics. He is an avid runner and marathoner and is a member of Team SERG (Science & Engineering Running Group). He is also a musician (piano and guitar) and was a member of the music ministry at the Interfaith Center at the University of Louisville, Kentucky in 2005.

Michael Smith was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1984. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 2007. From 2003-2006 he worked at GTRI as an assistant engineer. He is currently working toward a M. S. at Georgia Institute of Technology with a focus on signal preprocessing. He is an avid tennis player and member of the GT Tennis Club.		Azhar Hasan was born in Islamabad, Pakistan in 1976. He received is BE and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan in 1997 and 2007 respectively. He also gained a MBA from Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan in 2005. Presently he is working towards his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. He is passionate about Cricket and Polo.

Bryon Doyle was born in Flemington, New Jersey in 1984. He received the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina in 2006. He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta with an expected graduation date of August 2008 with a focus on Computer Engineering and Telecommunications. In 2005 he completed an internship with the Bell Laboratories Advanced Technologies division of Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill, NJ. His research was focused on Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) for multimedia broadcasting applications. From 2006 to 2007 he worked for the US Air Force at Robins AFB, GA focusing on data link analysis. He is an enthusiast of whitewater rafting, sport fishing and is an avid golfer.