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Ground software as a service company Atlas Space Operations named John Williams as its new CEO, and opened a government-focused subsidiary, Freedom Space Technologies, the company announced this week.  Williams...

Steve Collar has been the face of SES and O3b for just over a decade. However, in mid-June, Collar announced he was stepping down from the role as SES’s CEO...

SES’s announcement on Monday that Steve Collar is leaving his role as CEO means there will be huge change at one of the world’s biggest satellite operators. The timing of...

Forsway has appointed Bengt Jonsson as its new chairman, the company announced June 14. A long-time investor with strong roots in Forsway, Jonsson previously served as managing director of the...

Terran Orbital has hired Tony Gingiss as the company’s new COO, snagging the executive after Virgin Orbit’s bankruptcy.  Gingiss has a long career in the space industry including more than...

Viasat’s former CEO Rick Baldridge is retiring from his role as vice chairman with the completion of the Inmarsat acquisition, and will remain on the company’s board of directors.  Baldridge...

Kerry Wisnosky is joining Quantum Space as the startup’s president and CEO, the company announced Friday. He is now responsible for Quantum Space’s strategic direction moving forward as the company...

SES is on the hunt for a new CEO after the company announced that CEO Steve Collar is stepping down. Collar had been in the role just over five years....

Melissa Quinn, the former head of Spaceport Cornwall, has joined spaceflight safety data and tracking company Slingshot Aerospace as its new general manager of Seradata, the launch and satellite database...

Redwire COO Andrew Rush, formerly of Made In Space, is joining space exploration company Copernicus Space Corporation as president and CEO.  Copernicus is developing miniaturized, semi-autonomous space probes to search...