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  1. Investigating Rotation and Anisotropic Ablation of Small Meteoroids and their Effects on Head Echo Plasma Formation via Computational Techniques

    Article • March 2025, Authorea, Inc.

    Nicolas Lee

  2. Understanding Special Plasma Wave Behavior for Better Space Debris Detection

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, February 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Ashwyn Sam, Nicolas Lee

  3. Invariant Funnels in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, December 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Nicolas Lee

  4. Meteor Head Echo Detection at Multiple High‐Power Large‐Aperture Radar Facilities via a Convolutional Neural Network Trained on Synthetic Radar Data

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics, March 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicolas Lee

  5. Meteor Head Echo Analyses From Concurrent Radar Observations at AMISR Resolute Bay, Jicamarca, and Millstone Hill

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics, October 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicolas Lee

  6. Supporting Uranus Exploration with Deployable Small Spacecraft Probes

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, August 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Nicolas Lee

  7. Theory of Power Generation From Spacecraft Charging

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicolas Lee

  8. Neutral density measurement from simultaneous radar observation of meteors

    Article • December 2019, Wiley

    Nicolas Lee

  9. Hypervelocity impact flash and plasma on electrically biased spacecraft surfaces

    Article • International Journal of Impact Engineering, November 2018, Elsevier

    Nicolas Lee

  10. An electrostatic method to model the expansion of hypervelocity impact plasma on positively biased surfaces

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, September 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Nicolas Lee

  11. Meteoroid Impact Detection for Exploration of Asteroids: Small Satellites for Asteroid Characterization

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, January 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Nicolas Lee

  12. A CubeSat platform for characterizing the reliability of electronic components

    Article • July 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicolas Lee

  13. Crease-free biaxial packaging of thick membranes with slipping folds

    Article • International Journal of Solids and Structures, March 2017, Elsevier

    Nicolas Lee

  14. Trajectory design of formation flying constellation for space-based solar power

    Article • March 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicolas Lee

  15. Meteoroid Impact Detection for Exploration of Asteroids (MIDEA): A Small Satellite Concept for Asteroid Characterization

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Nicolas Lee

  16. Architecture for in-space robotic assembly of a modular space telescope

    Article • Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems, July 2016, SPIE

    Nicolas Lee

  17. Ultralight Structures for Space Solar Power Satellites

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Nicolas Lee

  18. Estimation of hypervelocity impact parameters from measurements of optical flash

    Article • International Journal of Impact Engineering, October 2015, Elsevier

    Nicolas Lee

  19. Design algorithm for the placement of identical segments in a large spherical mirror

    Article • Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems, March 2015, SPIE

    Nicolas Lee

  20. Design algorithm for the placement of identical segments in a large spherical mirror

    Article • Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems, March 2015, SPIE

    Nicolas Lee

  21. Wrapping Thick Membranes with Slipping Folds

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Nicolas Lee

  22. Packaging and deployment strategies for synthetic aperture radar membrane antenna arrays

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicolas Lee

  23. Self-Supporting Membrane Structures with Curved Creases for Smooth Packaging and Deployment

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Nicolas Lee

  24. Detection of electromagnetic pulses produced by hypervelocity micro particle impact plasmas

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, September 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Nicolas Lee

  25. Curved pleat folding for smooth wrapping

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, May 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Nicolas Lee

  26. Theory and experiments characterizing hypervelocity impact plasmas on biased spacecraft materials

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, March 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Nicolas Lee

  27. Measurements of freely-expanding plasma from hypervelocity impacts

    Article • International Journal of Impact Engineering, June 2012, Elsevier

    Nicolas Lee

  28. Electromagnetic pulses generated by meteoroid impacts on spacecraft

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, December 2010, Wiley

    Nicolas Lee