NEWS | DEC 5, 2022
Scalable space infrastructure company ThinkOrbital announced Colonel Lee Rosen (US Air Force, Retired) as the newest member of its founding team. 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.
“We are excited to welcome Lee Rosen as a Co-founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer,” said Sebastian Asprella, Co-founder and CEO at ThinkOrbital. “Lee has been an incredible advisor to our team since almost a year, and we are delighted to transition him into a more active role 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.”
The ThinkOrbital founders at the International Astronautical Congress hosted in Paris, 2022.(From left to right): Sebastian Asprella, CEO and Co-founder; Dr Vojtech Holub, CIO and Co-founder; Col Lee Rosen, President, CSO and Co-founder.
Dr Vojtech Holub, ThinkOrbital’s Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer said, “We started ThinkOrbital in early 2021 following an academic peer-review of our in-space autonomously assembled infrastructure. 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.”
Colonel Lee Rosen said, “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. 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.”
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. Commenting on the ISAM focused ThinkPlatform Jim MacConnell, Chief Technology Officer at ThinkOrbital said, “We’re working towards delivering a 4000m3 space structure, able to support Active Debris Remediation (ADR) missions, among other use cases. Large volume structures are ideal for SpaceWERX’s ISAM goals, as we can achieve significant cost advantages for ADR, satellite servicing and other missions.”
About ThinkOrbital
ThinkOrbital Inc. is a scalable space infrastructure developer and operator, advancing autonomous in-space assembly and welding capabilities to deliver large-volume cost-efficient space platforms. The ThinkPlatform is a single-launch configured multi-mission space platform, envisioned to serve private and public sector needs such as satellite servicing, space debris removal, in-space manufacturing, research missions, on-orbit storage & refueling, and space tourism. Learn more: thinkorbital.com.
NEWS | DEC 5, 2022
Scalable space infrastructure company ThinkOrbital announced Colonel Lee Rosen (US Air Force, Retired) as the newest member of its founding team. 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.
“We are excited to welcome Lee Rosen as a Co-founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer,” said Sebastian Asprella, Co-founder and CEO at ThinkOrbital. “Lee has been an incredible advisor to our team since almost a year, and we are delighted to transition him into a more active role 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.”
The ThinkOrbital founders at the International Astronautical Congress hosted in Paris, 2022.(From left to right): Sebastian Asprella, CEO and Co-founder; Dr Vojtech Holub, CIO and Co-founder; Col Lee Rosen, President, CSO and Co-founder.
Dr Vojtech Holub, ThinkOrbital’s Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer said, “We started ThinkOrbital in early 2021 following an academic peer-review of our in-space autonomously assembled infrastructure. 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.”
Colonel Lee Rosen said, “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. 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.”
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. Commenting on the ISAM focused ThinkPlatform Jim MacConnell, Chief Technology Officer at ThinkOrbital said, “We’re working towards delivering a 4000m3 space structure, able to support Active Debris Remediation (ADR) missions, among other use cases. Large volume structures are ideal for SpaceWERX’s ISAM goals, as we can achieve significant cost advantages for ADR, satellite servicing and other missions.”
Conceptual design of ThinkOrbital’s 4000m3 ThinkPlatform-3 with a docked Starship.
About ThinkOrbital
ThinkOrbital Inc. is a scalable space infrastructure developer and operator, advancing autonomous in-space assembly and welding capabilities to deliver large-volume cost-efficient space platforms. The ThinkPlatform is a single-launch configured multi-mission space platform, envisioned to serve private and public sector needs such as satellite servicing, space debris removal, in-space manufacturing, research missions, on-orbit storage & refueling, and space tourism. Learn more: thinkorbital.com.
