Dr. Matt Hejduk has spent more than thirty years in the design, development, and assessment of space sensing and command and control systems.  He holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, masters degrees from Southern…

Ryan Shepperd is the Mission Planning and Orbital Analysis, SSA Lead at Iridium Working on the Iridium program for 21 years as a navigation, guidance, and control engineer in orbital analysis and mission planning, Ryan…

Richard DalBello is currently the Director of the Office of Space Commerce.  In this role, he is responsible for managing the Department’s efforts to establish a space traffic control system to ensure safe space operations…

Dr. Sandra H. “Sandy” Magnus is employed by MITRE acting in the capacity of a “temporary government employee” as the Chief Engineer for the Traffic Coordination System for Space in the Office of Space Commerce…

Ellen Ochoa was the Director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX from 2013 until her retirement in May 2018.  She became the first Latina to go to space when she flew on a nine-day mission…

As President and COO of SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell is responsible for day-to-day operations and managing all customer and strategic relations to support company growth. She joined SpaceX in 2002 as vice president of Business Development…

Professor Kathleen Connor Howell is the Hsu Lo Distinguished Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics in the College of Engineering at Purdue University. She earned her B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University; her…