Jennifer Trosper

Jennifer Harris Trosper is Project Manager (PM) for NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. In the thirty years since her initial hiring at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a power subsystem engineer, Ms. Trosper has held critical engineering leadership roles on every spacecraft ever to have roved the surface of Mars. Ms. Trosper joined the Perseverance team in 2015 and held several leadership roles during the development and operations of the mission. Initially, as the Mission System Development Manager and Surface Phase Lead, she worked with her team to envision and design the rover's on-board autonomous capabilities and state of the art ground system necessary to meet the challenging science objectives of the surface mission. Ms. Trosper then transitioned to the role of the Project System Engineer and Engineering Technical Authority. In that role, she led the Project-wide systems engineering teams, verification and validation program, and technical risk assessment for the Launch, Crui