Sweety Pate is currently working as a Senior Spacecraft Operations Systems Engineer at Maxar Technologies in Palo Alto, California. Here, she is the Mission Ops Lead within the System Engineering Group for the Power Propulsion Element (PPE) Spacecraft - First Module for Lunar Gateway under the NASA Artemis Program.

Over the past ten years, she has been working with leading aerospace industries and research organizations. During her undergrad in Aerospace Engineering, she won awards from NASA for eco-friendly aircraft designs successively in 2011 and 2012 and presented the award-winning research at NASA Langley. She also received an award from the AIAA in 2012 for space vehicle design. The prize-winning undergraduate studies led to a year-long research position at the German Aerospace Center - DLR, where she worked on innovative aircraft and space vehicle designs using collaborative engineering.

She completed her Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering (specializing in Space Systems) from Delft University of Technology (TUDelft). She worked at Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering (DARE) as an Assembly, Integration & Test (AIT) Engineer and was a launch crew member of the STRATOS 2+ rocket that set a European amateur rocketry altitude record in 2015. She worked at Thales Alenia Space in Italy on multidisciplinary optimization of re-entry vehicles - Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) and Space Rider. She has been involved in the Poland Mars Analogue Simulation (PMAS) 2017 as an Analog Astronaut and a CapCom. She has experience in model-based systems and concurrent engineering for aerospace applications and has published several papers in this domain. She worked as a Satellite Operations Systems Engineer at QinetiQ - Belgium and was involved in a satellite mission - ALTIUS. Here, she also led the European Space Traffic Management (EUSTM) Horizon 2020 project.

She has a strong network of collaborations and is the recipient of several awards in the industry for outstanding research and accomplishments as a young professional. She led the Women in Aerospace Europe (WIA-E) Belgium Group and was a member of the Space Generation and Advisory Council (SGAC) Belgium. She promoted science among students as Belgium's National Coordinator for the Scientist of a Day NASA JPL competitions.