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Telesat hired a retired Canadian brigadier general to lead its ​​government go-to-market and business development strategy for the Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) network. The Canadian operator announced retired Brig. Gen. G. Michael Adamson as the company’s new senior director of Defense Strategy and Business Development on Wednesday.  Adamson was the inaugural Commander of the Canadian...

Rocket Lab has hired a new COO from the automotive industry to help the company scale manufacturing. The launcher announced Frank Klein as its new chief operations officer on Sept. 10. The appointment is effective Sept. 16.  Most recently, Klein served as COO at Rivian Automative, where he helped to transform Rivian from a low...

Space industry hiring firm Evona is launching a new executive search arm of the company called Gram Partners.  The brand is led by CEO Steve Finder, who had stints leading talent acquisition at Apple and SpaceX, along with Vice President of Client Success Melissa Scofield, who has more than 25 years of recruiting experience across...

Lynk Global named a new CEO on Monday, with other changes to its executive slate as the company works to go public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger.  Dan Dooley, who is Lynk’s current chief commercial officer, will become CEO, effective immediately.  Dooley has three decades of experience in the global communications industry...

John Finney, who founded satellite terminal company All.Space, is stepping down from his role as CEO. All.Space announced Wednesday that Paul McCarter will succeed Finney as CEO, effective immediately.  Finney was previously the chief commercial officer of O3b Networks. He founded the company in 2013 as Isotropic Systems to design a multi-orbit antenna to match...

Clay Mowry will lead the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) as the organization’s next CEO, AIAA announced Tuesday. Mowry succeeds Dan Dumbacher, who is retiring and will leave AIAA at the end of September. Mowry will start in his role on Oct. 1.  AIAA is the largest aerospace technical society with nearly 30,000...

Firefly Aerospace has appointed Millennium Space Systems CEO Jason Kim as the launcher’s new CEO. The appointment is effective Oct. 1, 2024, and Kim will join Firefly at the company’s headquarters in Austin. This news comes after Firefly’s previous CEO Bill Weber left the company in July amid reports of an inappropriate relationship with female...

Global satellite operator Viasat announced Wednesday that it has hired Delta Air Lines‘ Senior Vice President of Operational Finance Gary Chase as its new CFO. Chase will start with Viasat on September 16. Viasat’s current CFO Shawn Duffy will remain with the company as its chief accounting officer. Chase spent more than 12 years at...

Mynaric CEO Mustafa Veziroglu has stepped down from his post after a tenure plagued by production delays and high costs. The laser technology company announced Veziroglu’s departure on Monday, less than a week after it slashed its 2024 revenue guidance by nearly 70% and saw its stock value drop. Mynaric is now looking for a...

Arizona-based motion control solutions provider Kinematics has joined the Satellite Industry Association (SIA) as its newest member, the company announced this week.  Kinematics offers motion control products for solar, industrial mobile, and satellite industry. For the satellite industry, its motion control products are designed to meet satellite ground station and user terminal reflector positioning requirements....