Xona Space Systems <\/b>appointed Jonathan \u201cJay\u201d Wakenshaw as the company\u2019s first chief operating officer, announced Jan. 23.<\/p>\n
With over 25 years of leadership experience across aerospace, aviation, and advanced manufacturing industries, Wakenshaw will focus on Xona\u2019s internal teams and laying the groundwork for scaling to the full constellation and operations network. Xona plans to have Wakenshaw move the Xona Pulsar satellite navigation constellation from prototype to full operational capacity.<\/p>\n
Wakenshaw commented: \u201cXona\u2019s Pulsar commercial satellite navigation service has the potential to transform global industries, and I look forward to contributing my expertise to help bring it to the mainstream market.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wakenshaw\u2019s background includes serving as the COO for Elroy Air, the vice president of Operations for Toray Advanced Composites, the CCO for Ascent Aerospace, the president for Danco Machine, and more.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany companies underestimate the challenges of scaling up such complex processes,\u201d Xona\u2019s co-founder and CEO, Brian Manning said. \u201cJay\u2019s leadership will ensure our operational readiness and scalability to meet the increasing demand for resilient and precise navigation services for our partners.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Xona Space Systems appointed Jonathan \u201cJay\u201d Wakenshaw as the company\u2019s first chief operating officer, announced Jan. 23. With over 25 years of leadership experience across aerospace, aviation, and advanced manufacturing industries, Wakenshaw will focus on Xona\u2019s internal teams and laying the groundwork for scaling to the full constellation and operations network. Xona plans to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}