Personnel

Steven Berg, PhD

Dr. Berg has served as Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University since 2023. He has previous industry experience as CEO of a small business focused on small satellite propulsion research and development, and as a propulsion and test engineer at SpaceX. He earned his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2015 for his work in multimode spacecraft propulsion. He has co-authored more than 40 publications and presentations and two patents.

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Dhrumil Soni

Project: Experimental Measurements of Momentum Exchange and Drag Force in the VLEO Flight Regime

David Samolkin

Project: Design and Operation of a Catalytic Microtube as an Injector for Multimode Chemical-Electric Propulsion

Harry Thomas

Project: Exergy Analysis of Airbreathing Electric Propulsion

Sean Connolly

Project: Qualification of Novel Monopropellants for Spaceflight

Alex Bryan-Jones

Project: CO-Balanced Electric Solid Propellants

Vru Shah

Project: Electrospray Properties of Novel Multimode Energetic Monopropellants

Joseph Palethu

Project: Analysis of Cislunar Propellant Supply Chains

Pablo Thomas

Project: Development of a Force Stand for VLEO Wind Tunnel Testing