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MSI Recruits Dr. Todd Mosher
Date: 10/24/2006Description:
(Littleton, Colorado) – Microsat Systems Inc. (MSI) has announced it has added Dr.Todd Mosher to its Executive Staff as the newly created Director of Advanced Systems.
MSI is preparing for its first satellite launch December 11, 2006, which will usher in its next stage of company growth. Dr. Mosher left his position as Senior Manager of
Advanced Exploration Systems at Lockheed Martin where he was a part of the group that recently was awarded the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle from NASA.
“We are fortunate to have Todd join our company in this role and I believe he will be a key asset to help take our company to the next level,” said John Roth, President and Chief
Operations Officer of MSI. “His expertise in the small satellite market as well as the imagination he demonstrates in solving challenging space problems will make a
difference.”
As Director of Advanced Systems, Dr. Mosher will be responsible for the pursuit and
capture of new business, as well as expanding MSI’s customer and product base. He also will use his technical background to develop new technology products and processes that
improve MSI’s offerings to its customers.
“With the upcoming launch, MSI is literally and figuratively ready to take off as a small entrepreneurial space company,” said Dr. Mosher in accepting his new position. “With
its current foundation of important satellite systems projects for the U.S. government,MSI has a solid business base from which to grow beyond its initial start-up phase.”
At Lockheed Martin, Dr. Mosher served as the Principal Investigator for an InternalResearch and Development project in Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking, a critical technology for space exploration missions. Prior to working at Lockheed Martin, Dr.
Mosher was an assistant professor at Utah State University (USU) where he was the Director of the Center for Advanced Satellite Manufacturing, a state sponsored center of excellence. While at USU, his research was sponsored by the Air Force Research
Laboratory, the Office of Naval Research, the National Reconnaissance Office, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Lockheed Martin, The Aerospace Corporation, and the Space Dynamics Laboratory. He also served as the program chair for the annual American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)/USU Conference on Small Satellites, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary this past August.
Prior to serving as an assistant professor at Utah State University, Dr. Mosher was the Associate Director of the Space Architecture Department at The Aerospace Corporation,
an instructor at the University of California Los Angeles, and worked at General Dynamics Space Systems on a variety of launch systems ranging from future concepts to the contemporary Space Shuttle and Atlas. Dr. Mosher earned his Ph.D. in aerospace
engineering from the University of Colorado, has two master’s degrees in aerospace engineering and systems engineering from the University of Colorado and the University
of Alabama in Huntsville respectively, and received his bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from San Diego State University. He is also a faculty member and graduate of the International Space University, which has taken him around the world from
Australia to Sweden.
Additional distinctions include two patents pending in small satellite design, nearly 50 professional publications, serving on two National Research Council panels reviewing
NASA technologies, serving as the current chair of the AIAA Space Systems Technical Committee, and being named an Associate Fellow of the AIAA in 2004. He has received several awards from NASA and the AIAA for his work mentoring students. He has also
served on several NASA selection teams helping to choose missions that include the Messenger mission currently traveling to Mercury, the New Horizons mission flying to
Pluto, the Deep Impact mission that recently impacted a comet, and the Phoenix mission
scheduled to land on Mars in 2008.
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