Nicholas Kano
About Nicholas Kano
Nicholas Kano is a Propulsion Development Engineer in Combustion Devices at BLUE ORIGIN, with expertise in designing complex hardware for production and development environments.
Title
Nicholas Kano holds the position of Propulsion Development Engineer in Combustion Devices at BLUE ORIGIN. He has been with the company in this capacity since 2021, contributing to the development of advanced propulsion technologies.
Company
Nicholas Kano is currently employed at BLUE ORIGIN, a company renowned for its innovations in aerospace engineering. His role at BLUE ORIGIN focuses on propulsion development engineering in combustion devices, a crucial area within the company's mission of advancing space exploration technologies.
Previous Work Experience
Prior to his current role, Nicholas Kano worked as an Additive Manufacturing Engineer at BLUE ORIGIN from 2020 to 2021. He has also held a position as a Quality Engineer at Crane Aerospace & Electronics from 2018 to 2020. Additionally, Nicholas served as Payload Lead at the Society for Advanced Rocket Propulsion and as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the University of Washington.
Education and Expertise
Nicholas Kano earned a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington, where he studied from 2014 to 2018. His expertise encompasses designing complex hardware for both production and development environments. At BLUE ORIGIN, he served as Design Lead for the cryogenic LOx and hot GOx circuits of the Preburner on the BE-4 engine.
Location
Nicholas Kano is based in Kent, Washington, United States. In his capacity as a Propulsion Development Engineer in Combustion Devices, he focuses on the advanced engineering and development of propulsion systems.