Nicholas Simon

Nicholas Simon has been in the space industry since 2022 when they began working as a Mission Manager for Impulse Space. Prior to this, they were a Mission Manager at Momentus from 2020-2019, and an Innovation Engineer and Mission Manager at MOMENTUS from 2019. In 2019, they also acted as a Student Consultant for Corning Incorporated, where they conducted in-depth literature research on current and future Li-ion technologies. In 2018, they were the Lead Propulsion Engineer for the Space Enterprise at Berkeley, where they gained hands-on experience with composite layups, CAD modeling, laser printing, and sponsorship acquisition. Nicholas was also responsible for the design and development of a liquid bi-propellant rocket engine. From 2016-2017, they were a Student, Undergraduate Research Assistant, and Teaching Fellow at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. For their senior design project, they designed a zero-emissions process plant to produce 100,000 tonnes of urea fertilizer per year from woody biomass. Nicholas also designed and built an experiment to validate the nitrogen bubbling technique to mitigate corrosion. In 2017, they were an Intern at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head EOD Technology Division, where they built, tested, and modified a lab-scale flow reactor for nano-propellant synthesis.

Nicholas Simon attended the University of Maryland Baltimore County from 2014 to 2018, where they earned a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering. Nicholas then went on to pursue a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley from 2018 to 2019.