John S. Snyder

Steve Snyder is the Lead Systems Engineer for Solar Electric Propulsion on the Psyche Mission. He has over twenty-five years of experience and seventy publications in the field of electric propulsion including research and development, formulation, systems engineering and flight implementation. He has been the Lead Electric Propulsion Engineer for JPL's Team X, was a systems engineer for the Dawn Ion Propulsion System, and prior to joining JPL led major contributions to Space Systems/Loral's first satellites with electric propulsion systems. He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University.