{"id":62846,"date":"2019-03-08T20:04:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T12:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mitt-hettich-named-new-ceo-of-leostella\/"},"modified":"2019-03-08T20:04:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T12:04:56","slug":"mitt-hettich-named-new-ceo-of-leostella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mitt-hettich-named-new-ceo-of-leostella\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Hettich Named New CEO of LeoStella"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Hettich has been named the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of <strong>LeoStella<\/strong>, a joint venture created by <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> and<strong> Spaceflight Industries. &nbsp;<\/strong>The company aims&nbsp;to help meet the growing demand for efficient and cost-effective small-satellite production.<\/p>\n<p>Hettich brings more than 30 years of aerospace system design, development, and production experience to LeoStella. He will lead the company as it enters the next phase of growth, designing and manufacturing small satellites at scale at its production facility. The company\u2019s first major undertaking is constructing 20 satellites for <strong>BlackSky<\/strong>\u2019s Earth observation constellation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe smallsat industry is burgeoning and LeoStella is poised to service its growing demand for cost-effective and efficient design, test and production,\u201d said outgoing CEOChris Chautard. \u201cMike is a seasoned executive that will shape the vision of LeoStella going forward and position the company as a leader in the industry. His unique experience and established record of success will be a valuable asset for LeoStella.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Hettich has been named the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LeoStella, a joint venture created by Thales Alenia Space and Spaceflight Industries. &nbsp;The company aims&nbsp;to help meet the growing demand for efficient and cost-effective small-satellite production. Hettich brings more than 30 years of aerospace system design, development, and production experience to LeoStella. He will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62849,"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-62846","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\/62846"}],"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=62846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}