Avery Rains

Avery Rains is a Senior RF Systems Engineer at Apex - Spacecraft Manufacturing since August 2025, previously holding the same title at Rocket Lab from July 2022 to July 2025, where responsibilities included communications system architecture design for various space missions. Prior experience includes a role as Communications Engineer at Masten Space Systems, focusing on comms engineering for the NASA CLPS XL-1 lunar lander, and as RF Engineer at Notora, LLC, designing Distributed Antenna Systems for commercial and public safety networks. Early career experience includes an internship at Synectic Research and Analysis, Inc. performing data analysis for the Missile Defense Agency. Avery holds a Bachelor of Wireless Engineering from Auburn University, completed in 2017.