Former SpaceX VP Lee Rosen joins Start-Up Company Think Orbital
Colonel Lee Rosen (US Air Force, Retired) has been revealed as the newest member of the founding team of ThinkOrbital, a start-up scalable space infrastructure company. A former SpaceX VP of Mission and Launch Operations, and Customer Operations and Integration, Lee Rosen spent over a decade involved in more than 150 successful missions at SpaceX. He also spent 23 years in the US Air Force serving 3 tours in the National Reconnaissance Office, and as a Commander of the 4th Space Launch Squadron and 45th Launch Group Cape Canaveral. He will hold the post of Co-Founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer.
“ThinkOrbital is working on a revolutionary product design that will shift the industry’s perspective on what are viewed as limitations with in-space missions." Colonel Lee Rosen.
Colonel Lee Rosen.
"Lee Rosen has been an incredible advisor to our team for almost a year, and we are delighted to transition him into a more active role at ThinkOrbital," said Sebastian Asprella, Co-founder and CEO at ThinkOrbital. "He brings a great range of new space expertise to our leadership team, as a seasoned space operator, trained engineer and customer operations expert, liaising with national space agencies and private enterprise.”
“We started ThinkOrbital in early 2021 following an academic peer-review of our in-space autonomously assembled infrastructure," said Dr. Vojtech Holub, ThinkOrbital’s Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer. Our team of business and engineering experts has grown consistently since we started, which has supported our tech and business development roadmap. It’s great validation for our team to have Lee Rosen join our development journey and also lead our customer and business strategy.”
“ThinkOrbital is working on a revolutionary product design that will shift the industry’s perspective on what are viewed as limitations with in-space missions," said Colonel Lee Rosen. "Just as the issue of access to space is nearly solved with great advancements from companies like SpaceX, the next challenge isn’t about how to get from Earth to orbit, but on scalability of infrastructure in orbit. This is a problem we’re solving at ThinkOrbital and we’re not doing it by bending the laws of physics, but by applying ground-breaking engineering to mature space technologies.”
ThinkOrbital Developing Innovative ISAM Platform
Earlier this year ThinkOrbital announced continued development on their In-space Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) platform through two STTR Phase I contracts under SpaceWERX’s Orbital Prime program. “We’re working towards delivering a 4000m3 space structure, able to support Active Debris Remediation (ADR) missions, among other use cases," said Jim MacConnell, Chief Technology Officer at ThinkOrbital. "Large volume structures are ideal for SpaceWERX’s ISAM goals, as we can achieve significant cost advantages for ADR, satellite servicing and other missions.”
(Source: ThinkOrbital news release. Images provided. Pictured [L-R] Sebastian Asprella, CEO and Co-founder; Dr. Vojtech Holub, CIO and Co-founder; Col Lee Rosen, President, CSO and Co-founder)