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Rocket Propulsion Scientist
About Michael Lee
In 2023, Michael Lee led the design of the first methane-fueled rotating detonation engine (RDE) to achieve stable thrust over 90 seconds in vacuum-simulated conditions, a breakthrough that slashed theoretical specific impulse loss by 18% compared to conventional gas-generator cycles. His work doesn’t chase incremental ISP gains; it rethinks how combustion energy couples with nozzle dynamics, using real-time pressure-wave tomography to map shockfront coherence across millisecond-scale detonation cells. He’s published six peer-reviewed papers on transient thrust vectoring via asymmetric RDE phasing, work now embedded in NASA’s Artemis III ascent module contingency protocols. You won’t find him optimizing for TRL-6 readiness alone; he insists propulsion systems must pass the 'Mars return stress test': surviving 47 consecutive cold-start cycles without cryo-seal degradation. His lab notebook is filled not with equations alone, but hand-drawn schematics of turbineless turbopump alternatives and marginalia questioning whether 'thrust' itself needs redefinition when plasma sheaths interact with local interplanetary magnetic fields.
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- “How does your rotating detonation engine handle combustion instability during Mars ascent gravity losses?”
- “What material limits prevent scaling your RDE to 200+ tons of thrust today?”
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- “Why did you abandon the staged-combustion cycle for your lunar lander prototype?”
