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Capella Space appointed Frank Backes as its new CEO, the company announced Tuesday. Payam Banazadeh, who founded the company and has led it since 2016, will serve as board director....

ST Engineering iDirect appointed two new leaders to its executive team, naming Sridhar Kuppanna its new senior vice president of Engineering and Cynthia Harty as senior vice president of Corporate...

SES hired from outside of the satellite industry with its new CEO. The company announced Oct. 13 that T-Systems International executive Adel Al-Saleh will become its new CEO in February...

German startup OroraTech has appointed Martin Langer as its new CEO. The company announced the appointment Oct. 11. OroraTech strives to continue breaking the barriers of Earth Observation (EO) by...

Sidus Space announced two leadership appointments this week, elevating Leonardo Riera to chair of its board of directors, and Jared Novick to the role of COO. Both were already involved...

Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith is stepping down from his position at the end of this year, and Amazon’s Kuiper lead Dave Limp will become CEO of the company. A...

Chris Emerson, the former Chairman and CEO of Airbus US Space and Defense, was appointed Chairman of antenna manufacturer ALL.SPACE‘s board of directors, the company announced Monday. Emerson currently serves...

Speedcast appoints James Feger as the company’s new chief technology officer, to improve its software-defined wide area networking solutions. Feger joins Speedcast from application security and multi-cloud management company F5,...

Microgravity research and manufacturing company Space Tango has hired Sita Sonty as CEO, the company announced Sept. 1. Space Tango works in microgravity applications for hardware, software, materials science, biotech,...

Former Qualcomm CEO and XCOM Labs founder Paul Jacobs is joining Globalstar as CEO, as Globalstar announced Tuesday that CEO David Kagan is retiring. The move is part of a...