MEET OUR EXPERTS

What is your expertise? 

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“Thermal analysis and design of instrument and spacecraft; Application of linear control methods for satellite thermal analysis.”

What would you tell your younger self? 

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“Your (thermal) model is only as good as the assumptions YOU made.”

What fascinates you about space? 

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“The boundlessness itself and so many unknown worlds.”

What is your expertise?

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“I am currently acting as interphase between the Columbus Control Center and the offline engineering for the system parts of Columbus for real time operations.

Previously I worked in the design office for Ariane 5 and after that for the Columbus project in the range of Configuration Management, Onboard Procedures, ECLSS / TCS Operations Engineer and as a certified console position.

In the year 2018-2019, I joined the Phase A/B1 Study of iHAB, the European contribution to the Gateway. …

“…In that frame I was responsible for the Habitation Engineering of the module, which included on one side the optimization of the inner architecture and on the other side the arrangement of the system boxes.

In 2020, I managed the Requests for Deviation / Waiver (RFD/RFW) for all flight models of Orion ESM.

Since 2021, I am supporting a study to detect anomalies automatically within the real-time data of Columbus with support of artificial intelligence.

I graduated from the University of Stuttgart in Aerospace Engineering in 2005.”

What would you tell your younger self? 

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“Follow your passion for space.”

What fascinates you about space? 

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“Its dimensions, its extremes and what humanity could achieve if we all work together.”

What is your expertise? 

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“Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cost Engineering.”

What would you tell your younger self? 

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“The future is fascinating, but always a little different than expected. For a big project to succeed, you need a good plan and a real team. It takes 30 years to really understand most of the well-intentioned advice.”

What fascinates you about space?

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“There is so much space for exploration 🙂 “

What is your expertise? 

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“Systemsengineering, Ferrofluids, Electric propulsion systems”

What would you tell your younger self? 

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“Everything can be done. Some things need a lot of time, some things need a bit of bravery.”

What fascinates you about space? 

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“The challenge of oeprating in and investigating an extremely unforgiving environment to develop new useful things for humankind.”

What is your expertise? 

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“Battery Systems, Battery Management, Electrical Power System, Project Management.”

What would you tell your younger self? 

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“The road to success is always under construction.”

What fascinates you about space?

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“The sheer endlessness of space; 

The harsh conditions but also amazing possibilities and solutions to thrive there;

The combination of science and engineering.”

Dr. Ewald graduated from Cologne University with a PhD in Radioastronomy and a minor degree in Human Physiology. He became an astronaut for Germany’s DLR in 1990, training for the Germa-Russian spaceflight mission to Space Station MIR in 1992 and 1997. In 1997, he flew to the MIR station in Soyuz TM spacecraft. He spent 20 days in space, executing a programme of scientific and technological research.

Joining ESA’s Astronaut Corps in 1999, he supported the flights of ESA astronauts to ISS in various responsibilities as Crew Ops and Mission Opreations Manager. He directed the ESA Columbus Control Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, from 2004 to 2011. 

Dr. Ewald regularly teaches Human Spaceflight Operations at ISU, and at universities in Aachen and Stuttgart.

In September 2015, Dr. Ewald took up the position as professor for Astronautics and Space Stations at the Institute of Space Systems (IRS) as successor of Prof. Messerschmid. In this role, Dr. Ewald leads the Space Station Design Workshop since 2016.

Having finalized his studies of Aerospace Engineering, Stefanos Fasoulas worked from 1990 to 1999 as research assistant at the Institute of Space Systems, University of Stuttgart, where he obtained his PhD. Prof. Fasoulas followed a call to the chair of Space Systems/Space Utilization at the TU Dresden in November 1999 and became there in 2006 the managing director of the Institute of Aerospace Engineering.

In July 2010, he changed to the University of Stuttgart again, to the professorship of Space Transportation Technologies at the Institute of Space Systems, and became in February 2014 also the managing director of the Institute of Space Systems.

What is your expertise? 

“After finishing my master’s degree in electrical engineering, I spend 9 years in semiconductors industry, where I was responsible for product engineering and development of tests methods for integrated memory circuits. At DLR I am responsible for technical, financial and organizational preparation of ground stations and station networks for satellite missions. Most prominent projects which I participated within are: GRACE FO, TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, Galileo, PAZ, EnMAP, TET, BIROS. From initial concept works, analysis of requirements, development of mission design over the test strategies and up to the technical configurations is the work which has to be performed for each of such projects.”

What would you tell your younger self? 

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“Dear Marcin, do not worry much about not to be prepared for the things enough in the front. You will actually never be prepared 100%. But every time you try something, you learn something new, despite if you have a gain or loss in a topic itself.  Trust yourself and the physics.”

What fascinates you about space? 

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“Well, space itself is of course very marvelous, igniting dreams and thoughts about unknown. But the best part for me, as an engineer, is the possibility to create things and send them to place where no one has been yet, and where they potentially stay forever. Space business offers very wide field of technology and science to work with, very interdisciplinary. And rockets are fun, if they launch or just explode.”

What is your expertise?

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“Degree in Law. Universidad Central de Barcelona (1992) and Master in Business Law.  Universidad Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona (1995); Professional exercise from 1.992. Founder, Partner and Director of STARDUST CONSULTING S.L.U. Adviser in space & aerospace projects for company, Legal Law firms and Public Administrations.

Member of the Board of Directors (Vice- chairman of the Space Section) of Asociacion Española De Derecho Aeronautico y Espacial (AEDAE); Member of (IISL); Member of (ECSL- ESA); Member and founder of the Lobby Lunar Latino; Head of Legal affairs;…

“…Former legal assessor & space consultant of Barcelona Moon Team – GLXP; Member of the legal team who was develop the draft of the future Spanish Space Act in 2014; Member of the team who was develop the Strategic plan about New Space in Catalonia (Spain) (2020) and Space Law Adviser to IEEC in Projecte New Space 2021 and 2022 ; Associated teacher in Universidad Pontificia Comillas – ICADE.

Executive Space Course INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY (2007); Course: Planetary Science and the research for Life. OPEN UNIVERSITY, LONDON. (2010); Course: Introduction to Aerospace Engineering: Astronautics and human spaceflight. M.I.T by Edx (2019) and Private Pilot.”

What would you tell your younger self? 

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“Perseverance and believe that you can finally work in space affaires was the correct way. My younger self grew up in an environment nor propitious for space activities; But now, I can enjoy each day in this sector. Now, we have more opportunities to prepare our carriers and the future is amazing.”

What fascinates you about space?

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“Space is a place for going and staying. From a young age, I have a lot of interest in both, astronomy for understanding what I was seeing and astronautics, to have the means to go. There are a lot of amazing places to investigate and to go to in the future (yes, I grew up with Cosmos of Carl Sagan). Obviously, we start with orbit, Moon, Mars and the rest of the solar systems, but in a future sure we can expanse far away.”

What is your expertise? 

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“My expertise lies in new narratives of living and designing on a damaged planet.”

What would you tell your younger self? 

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“Listen.”

What fascinates you about space? 

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“The only place from which you can see Earth as one big organism of entangled life.”

What is your expertise? 

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“Project manager in space industry, holding a doctoral degree in aerospace engineering from University of Stuttgart;

More than ten years of professional experience in project management;

Four years of scientific research experience in the field of human spaceflight and space infrastructure”

What would you tell your younger self? 

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“Always stay flexible in your mind and never stop learning. 

… and maybe

some lottery drawings … ;)”

What fascinates you about space?

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“High Tech and the complexity of the spacecraft and rockets, to go where no one has gone before, weightlessness, to travel to other planets.”

What is your expertise? 

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“Space Propulsion Systems;

Atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion;

Ground testing fascilities;

Performance characterization;

Plasma diagnostics”

What would you tell your younger self? 

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“Hello there.”

What fascinates you about space? 

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“Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, and Borg.”

What is your expertise?

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“I am an aerospace engineer and a graduate of the University of Stuttgart.

My main responsibility is the coordination of all development activities at Astos Solutions. Still, I am involved also in many projects, where I am working in topics like mission performance analysis, space situational awareness and space safety, knowledge management, multidisciplinary design optimization, and simulation systems for the development and testing of space systems and components.”

What would you tell your younger self? 

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“Keep your eyes open and try to focus on the things you really want to do.”

What fascinates you about space? 

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“I am a real science-fiction nerd and fascinated by the descriptions of other planets and space journeys. On the other hand, I am an engineering enthusiast and complex space systems are after my fancy.”

What is your expertise?

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“Research and development of robotics systems for space exploration, including rovers, camera masts, manipulator arms; prototype development;

Lecturing “Roverseminar” and “Roverpraktikum””

What would you tell your younger self? 

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“Take part in KSat projects.”

What fascinates you about space? 

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“Surface exploration on foreign worlds.”