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Shea Ferring serves as the vice president of mission assurance at Firefly Aerospace, an Austin, Texas-based company that develops small and medium-sized launch vehicles. With a career spanning over 25 years, he has gained experience in the design, integration, test, and leadership of space systems. Ferring was promoted as mission assurance VP after a nearly […]
John Quinn is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Exos Aerospace, a developer of reusable launch systems based in Greenville, Texas. Before taking on the role of CEO, Quinn was the company’s chief operating officer for six years. As COO, he played a key role in the development of hypersonic reusable launch vehicles as […]
Michael VanWoerkom is the founder and president of ExoTerra Resource, an entrepreneurship company whose stated goal is to reduce the cost of space exploration through innovative space infrastructure systems. The company grew on the backs of eight engineers with specialties in system design, mechanical design, stress analysis, electrical propulsion, mission analysis and thermal protection systems, […]
Blake Larson serves as corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman‘s space systems sector, which provides space and launch systems to national security, civil and commercial customers. Northrop’s space systems business unit offers launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; satellites, spacecraft and related components; and payload and ground systems. Larson is responsible for the […]
As executive vice president of Sierra Nevada Corporation's space systems group Janet Kavandi is in charge of space programs such as the Dream Chaser spaceplane. The Dream Chaser, a winged supply vehicle capable of landing on a commercial runway, is under contract to deliver supplies to the International Space Station starting 2021, SNC said. Kavandi […]
Megan Fitzgerald is the senior vice president of space programs delivery at Maxar Technologies, a space technology company that specializes in manufacturing communication, Earth observation, radar and satellite products and services. Fitzgerald joined Maxar in 2007 through its Space Systems Loral subsidiary and has since served as senior vice president of program management, vice president […]
Jim Chilton, a 2017 Wash100 winner, is the senior vice president of the space and launch division of Boeing's defense, space and security business unit, a position he had held since April 2018. Chilton took on the role during a period of operation restructuring aimed at focusing on important markets and meeting customer needs faster, […]
Kevin Sagis is the chief engineer and vice president of engineering at Virgin Orbit, a launch services provider for small satellites headquartered in Long Beach, California. With a career spanning more than 30 years, he has gained experience in the areas of vehicle design, manufacturing, test and operations, providing expertise in the deployment of over […]
Mandy Vaughn serves as the president of VOX Space, a California-based company that provides smallsat launch services for the U.S. national security community. VOX Space provides analysis, integration and launch services using LauncherOne, a two-stage orbital launch vehicle developed by parent company Virgin Orbit, according to Vaughn's LinkedIn profile. Vaughn originally joined Virgin Orbit in […]
Jon Edwards is the vice president of SpaceX's Falcon line of launch vehicles. He leads a team of more than 100 engineers responsible for developing Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles. In the said role, Edwards is responsible for the cost, reliability and performance of the vehicle during all phases of Falcon development lifecycle, […]
