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STEM Southwest Podcast


Sep 16, 2021

Please join us today as we have an interesting discussion with a repeat guest, Jonathan Firth, who is Chief Operating Officer at D-Orbit, an international New Space company with solutions covering the entire lifecycle of a space mission.  We first met Jonathan as the organizer of the Las Cruces Space Festival and met him again at a robotics competition while he was in the U.S. working with Virgin Galactic.  He was a long-standing member of the senior executive team that started up Virgin Galactic and we are blessed to call him a friend who has done a lot to support the STEM Southwest Podcast.

Show Notes

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Jonathan Firth has been directly involved in the development of the commercial space industry since 2004, when ‘SpaceShipOne’ reached suborbital space and won the ‘Ansari X-Prize’.  He is the Chief Operating Officer at D-Orbit, an international New Space company with solutions covering the entire lifecycle of a space mission, including: mission analysis and design, engineering, manufacturing, integration, testing, launch, and end-of-life decommissioning.  Previously he was a long-standing member of the senior executive team that started up Virgin Galactic, The Spaceship Company and Virgin Orbit, leveraging his previous business development and program management experience in the commercial aviation, long distance rail, mass transit, and oil & gas industries.

Jonathan is a mechanical engineering graduate of Imperial College London and holds an MBA from Henley Business School, UK.  He is a regular keynote speaker on space activities and the global space economy at international events.

D-Orbit

ION Satellite Carrier

Solutions (D-Orbit)

Las Cruces Space Festival

Virgin Galactic

 

97th Burning of Zozobra kicks off in Santa Fe

 

Be Greater Than Average Gift of Learning

Be Greater Than Average Courses

Be Greater Than Average Family Fun!

Be Greater Than Average A Semester of STEM Activities E-Book

Battling Bots League (Partnership between Be Greater Than Average and Electric Playhouse)

 

Contact:

Jonathan Firth

info@dorbit.space                  

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Facebook (D-Orbit)

Linkedin (D-Orbit)

Twitter (D-Orbit)

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