Tag: Tech Moves
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Blue Origin hires United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno to head its national security group
United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno, shown here at the Space Symposium in 2016, is joining Blue Origin. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Eleven years after United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno partnered with Blue Origin to create a new rocket engine, he’s joining Jeff Bezos’ space venture as the president of Blue Origin’s newly…
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Departing Amazon exec Dave Limp will become CEO at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture
Blue Origin’s next CEO, Dave Limp, speaks at 2019’s GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Blue Origin has confirmed that Dave Limp, who is leaving his post as Amazon’s senior vice president of devices and services, will take over as the CEO of Jeff Bezos’ privately held space venture. The current CEO, longtime aerospace…
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Former Spaceflight CEO Curt Blake joins law firm to focus on new space ventures
Curt Blake, former CEO of Spaceflight Inc., is joining Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as the law firm launches a NewSpace industry group. (GeekWire File Photo / Alan Boyle) Spaceflight Inc.’s former CEO, Curt Blake, is joining the Seattle office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati at a time when the California-based law firm is…
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Tiphaine Louradour launches a new stage of her career as CEO of Spaceflight Inc.
Spaceflight CEO Tiphaine Louradour has more than 15 years of space industry experience. (Spaceflight Photo) Space industry veteran Tiphaine Louradour is taking the helm as CEO of Spaceflight Inc., a launch and in-space transportation services provider based in Bellevue, Wash. She succeeds Curt Blake, who has served as Spaceflight CEO and president since 2013. Blake…
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After flying with SpaceX, citizen astronaut Chris Sembroski joins Blue Origin as engineer
Chris Sembroski went into orbit during the Inspiration4 mission in 2021. (SpaceX / Inspiration4 Photo) Seattle-area data engineer Chris Sembroski got his first taste of space last year during an orbital trip in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, but now he’s got a full-time job in the space industry — as an avionics engineer at Blue…
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After milestone flight, Blue Origin SVP Stephen Bennett will join Kepler Communications as COO
Blue Origin’s team gathers in front of a New Shepard booster after July’s first crewed suborbital spaceflight. (Blue Origin Photo) The changing of the guard is continuing at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture with the departure of Stephen Bennett, a senior vice president who led the team behind the company’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship.…
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Boeing shifts its team leaders for space station and Starliner space programs
Boeing’s John Mulholland gives a briefing to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine during a visit to the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2018. Hardware for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi can be seen in the background. (NASA Photo / Kim Shiflett) As a new commercial-centric era dawns…
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After leading Mars rover missions, Steve Squyres joins Blue Origin as chief scientist
Cornell astronomer Steve Squyres, the principal investigator for the Mars Exploration Rovers, will become Blue Origin’s chief scientist. (Cornell University Photo) Just months after closing out the 15-year-long Opportunity rover mission on Mars, Cornell University astronomer Steve Squyres is taking advantage of a new opportunity: the post of chief scientist at Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’…
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LeoStella satellite venture hands over CEO reins to aerospace executive Mike Hettich
Mike Hettich has taken over as LeoStella’s CEO. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) TUKWILA, Wash. — Mike Hettich has finally completed his transition from chief learning officer to chief executive officer at LeoStella, the satellite manufacturing joint venture headquartered here. Hettich came to LeoStella from Kirkland, Wash.-based Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems, where he served as vice…
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Former Insitu CEO makes the leap over to World View stratospheric balloon venture
An artist’s conception shows World View’s Stratollite platform in action. (World View Illustration) For three and a half years, Ryan Hartman served as president and CEO of Insitu — the Boeing subsidiary headquartered in Bingen, Wash., that pioneered the creation of unmanned aircraft systems for military and commercial applications. Now Hartman will raise his sights as…