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AvL Technologies has announced changes to its executive team with the retirement of CEO Guy Clerici. The company’s owner and founder Jim Oliver semi-retired in 2022 and appointed Clerici to serve as interim CEO during this transitional period and while a new chairman of the board was selected. AVL announced July 10 the company has...

Neo Space Group (NSG) has appointed Martijn Blanken as its new CEO. NSG aims to become a new player in satellite communications in the Middle East. The company announced the appointment, July 8. NSG is a wholly owned company of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the nation’s sovereign wealth fund. NSG will focus on pursuing...

MDA Space is now looking for a new chief financial officer (CFO) as the company’s CFO Vito Culmone is leaving the company. Culmone, who had been with MDA Space for more than three years, is joining sustainable architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting company Stantec.  MDA Space appointed Janet McEachern as interim CFO, effective July 2....

Planet Labs is going through another round of layoffs and will lay off approximately 180 employees, about 17% of its workforce. The company disclosed the layoffs in filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 26.  Planet said the layoffs are due to “aligning the company’s resources to the market opportunity, improving operational efficiency,...

Kongsberg NanoAvionics has appointed Atle Wøllo as its new CEO, the company announced Monday. This comes two years after the Norwegian defense firm acquired NanoAvionics, a company that began as a spin-off from Lithuania’s Vilnius University and became a leading small satellite manufacturer.  Wøllo is a former Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace executive and was previously...

Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA), a spaceport operator and launch technology infrastructure company, has hired Joshua Daish, as its new Head of Arnhem Space Center site operations. Daish will also take up the Launch Operations Manager role in ELA’s launch operations team. Working closely with ELA’s CEO and within the leadership team, the role supports the...

Terran Orbital is making changes to its executive team, hiring a new COO, CFO, and chief accounting officer (CAO). The company announced Wednesday that Peter Krauss will join Terran Orbital as COO.  Krauss has been a senior advisor to Terran Orbital since January. He was recently working as a business consultant as founder of PMK...

New Zealand is a country that punches above its weight in the space arena. The country, which has a population of just over 5 million people is making a big splash in space. Rocket Lab, one of the poster children of the New Space era, put New Zealand on the map. But the nation also...

Satellite navigation startup TrustPoint has appointed Charles Beames as executive chairman of the company’s board of directors. With this role, Beames will lead the TrustPoint board and work with the company’s executive team.  TrustPoint, which recently won the Startup Space competition at SATELLITE, is developing a fully commercial Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) to provide...

Via Satellite Rising Stars is a new nomination program launching in 2024 to highlight the achievements and contributions of young professionals in the space and satellite industry. We are asking readers to highlight young professionals who have made tangible contributions to the industry whether it be business or technical achievement or industry advocacy work. Via...