Meet Julie!

She's on a mission to make the future brighter through engineering, writing, and inspiring the next generation of builders!

Chief Engineer for Space Programs

Julie Newman is a results-driven aerospace executive with leadership experience across satellites, rockets, and reentry vehicles. She has delivered programs now flying in LEO, MEO, and GEO orbits as well as on interplanetary trajectories.

Author of Amazon Best-Seller "Pull Don't Push"

Julie is the author of the book “Pull Don’t Push” which is helping educators and parents better understand engineering so they can get kids excited about STEM & its positive impacts on the world!

Award-Winning Speaker & STEM Champion

Julie is a frequent speaker at aerospace industry events, STEM education conferences, and numerous podcasts! She has been honored with awards by various organizations, including NASA and Space & Satellite Professionals International.

Julie Newman is an engineer, author, and champion for K12 STEM outreach. She has been recognized as one of the “20 Under 35” leaders of the aerospace industry.

Julie is the Chief Engineer at Impulse Space for the Mira Satellite Program. Impulse Space is on a mission to mobilize space, with a primary focus on highly maneuverable and efficient space vehicles. The company was founded by Tom Mueller, the first employee at SpaceX and rocket propulsion expert responsible for the Falcon 9 rocket engines. In her role as Chief Engineer, Julie reports directly to him and is responsible for ensuring that every new satellite works as intended! This means managing technical risk, solving issues, and being a connector within the company.

Prior to Impulse, Julie was the Vice President of Engineering at Outpost, a space startup developing a returnable space platform for manufacturing, defense, and global logistics applications. Before that, Julie served as the Chief Engineer for a major satellite program at Boeing.

Over her career, Julie has worked on a wide range of space programs, including the Space Launch System, Starliner Crew Vehicle, SWOT earth-science satellite, and the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. While at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), she was a Lead Engineer for the radar instrument of the Europa Clipper Mission, which is currently in space flying towards Jupiter and, once it arrives in 2030, will study the oceans of Jupiter’s moon, Europa, and search for extraterrestrial life.

Julie is the author of the best-selling book titled: “Pull Don’t Push: Why STEM Messaging to Girls Isn’t Working and What to Do Instead”. From over a decade of experience in K-12 STEM Outreach, Julie has become the leading expert on how to effectively market STEM careers to young women. Today, she serves as a board member for the Engaging Girls in STEM program with the Los Angeles County Office of Education and as a national advisory committee member for Science Olympiad.

Julie lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their growing family – who inspire her daily to build the technologies of the future today and ensure that there will be more engineers in future generations to build the technologies of tomorrow.