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Former Mercury Systems SVP Amela Wilson Appointed Nanoracks CEO

Amela Wilson, formerly a senior vice president and general manager at Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY), has joined space services provider Nanoracks as CEO.

Nanoracks said Thursday that Wilson succeeds Jeffrey Manber, who will continue to serve as the company’s board chairman and assume a new role as president of Voyager Space’s international and space stations business.

Wilson will lead Nanoracks and spinoff initiatives related to its partnership with Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) aimed at creating a commercial space station.

Her career also includes leadership positions at FLIR Systems and Elbit Systems of America.

To date, Houston-based Nanoracks has sent 1,300 research experiments and more than 300 small satellites into space.

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Former Blue Origin VP Clay Mowry Joins Voyager Space as Chief Revenue Officer

Clay Mowry, former vice president of global sales at Blue Origin, has been named chief revenue officer of Denver-based space exploration company Voyager Space. The 25-year industry veteran will oversee Voyager’s revenue and sales operations, including those of its subsidiaries, the company said Monday. Mowry previously led Arianespace‘s U.S. subsidiary for 15 years and holds

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Northrop, Blue Origin, Nanoracks Book $416M in NASA Space Station Design Contracts

Northrop Grumman, Blue Origin and Nanoracks have received contracts worth $415.6 million combined from NASA to design space-based facilities for low Earth orbit. The Space Act Agreements come as the agency is looking to retire the International Space Station and transition to newer commercially developed facilities that could be accessible to both public and private

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