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Exotrail
launches new U.S.-
based Subsidiaries,
hires senior executives
to support
U.S. Government and Commercial
Space Logistics needs.
August 7, 2023
Exotrail, a global leader
in end-to-end space mobility, is thrilled to
announce the establishment of its new
subsidiaries in the United States: Exotrail U.S.
Inc., and Exotrail U.S. Federal Inc. The
subsidiaries will focus on pioneering innovative
solutions and driving advancements in space
logistics to support current and future U.S.
Defense, Civil, and Commercial space
requirements.
As an industry leader in
Space Logistics, Exotrail will continue to focus
on its core mission: enhancing the mobility of
space assets, so that small satellites can
optimize their deployment, increase their
service performance, and reduce space pollution.
Exotrail U.S. will commit
significant resources to develop engineering and
manufacturing capabilities in the U.S. to
support government and commercial customers. A
nationwide search is underway to select the best
location to establish a spaceware™ factory and
spacedrop™ integration facility. Exotrail U.S.
has already begun the effort of deploying
spacestudio™ and spacetower™ to U.S.-based cloud
infrastructure.
As part of the company's
strategic growth in the United States., Exotrail
U.S. is excited to introduce its first two
employees, who bring decades of experience
working with commercial and defense satellite
organizations:
Tyler Browder - Chief
Executive Officer (CEO)
Tyler was the CEO and co-founder of the space
software company Kubos, which was acquired in
2022. He has ten years of experience developing
software products in the space industry and
building distribution channels through strategic
partnerships. Tyler is located in Portland,
Oregon.
Brian Holt – Director, U.S.
Gov Business Development and Partnerships
Brian Holt is a space mobility pioneer, leader,
and aerospace veteran, having supported numerous
innovation activities across the U.S. Air Force
and U.S. Space Force over the last 20 years.
Brian is located in New England outside of
Boston, Massachusetts.
"Exotrail’s investment in
the U.S. represents a significant milestone for
us," said Jean-Luc Maria, CEO of Exotrail. "We
already have more than five customers in North
America, with commercial partners ranging from
traditional prime to new space operators like
Astro Digital, Starfish Space, and NASA on the
civil space side. Accelerating our growth in
both institutional and commercial markets is
instrumental to Exotrail’s future.” added Tyler
Browder, CEO of Exotrail U.S.
“At the historical peak of
space cooperation between France and the U.S.,
launching Exotrail’s U.S. offices allows us to
directly respond to the U.S. Space Force’s Line
of Effort #3, Partner to Win.” said Brian Holt,
Director of Exotrail U.S. Business Development
and Partnerships. “I am really excited to bring
my 20 years of experience in the Air Force and
Space Force to Exotrail and help them solve U.S.
Government requirements with their pioneering of
end-to-end space mobility solutions.”
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EDITO
: Juan Tomás Hernani,
President of YEESS |
YEESS: The new “space virtual enterprise, larger
than any other space enterprise in Europe, who
did not exist 5 years ago”
Space is
not a big place, neither our planet Earth. It
looks an oxymoron, but the reality shows that
the Low Earth Orbits are now considerably
crowded, having grown from 1500 to over 8200
(UNOOSA, Jan22), out of which nearly a half
belong to a single US constellation, Starlink.
That is
why the European Commission and ESA decided to
launch the IRIS2
constellation,
an attempt to reserve the sovereignty and voice
of Europe into the game, going beyond secure
communications and including Earth Observation
and GNSS as additional fundamental services that
will differentiate the EU operation.
Since
the Lisbon 2000 objective (3% devoted to R+D+i),
Europe keeps repeating itself its strengths in
research capacities (now 3rd in the
world after China and US), and its weaknesses in
technology transfer (TT), with poorer results in
entrepreneurship. Mazzucato (“The
entrepreneurial State”) proposes to change this
perspective of poor TT into the analysis of the
industrial infrastructure, its behaviour, its
readiness to invest in technology as well as the
purchase policies and practices of the public
institutions.
Recently
ESA has awarded 9 Copernicus Contributing
Missions that soon will be disclosed, showing a
new attitude towards the opportunity, pointing
at new players with high potential.
And The
European Commission has dictated the rule of 30%
SME content in the aforementioned IRIS2
open competition.
But is
this willingness to push the European Space SMEs
corresponding to an industrial reality?
Otherwise, it could be a lost effort.
In a
truly bottom-up, continuous and open process,
the most promising European Space SMEs have
grown the Young European Enterprises Syndicate
for Space, YEESS. If we imagined this perimeter
of activities as a single virtual company, we
could show the leadership of YEESS in a robust
set of technologies and services like space
deployers, rockets, motors, thrusters, antennas,
RFI, optical cameras, EO full solutions or
launch services, amongst others. They are
provided by companies that successfully sell
those technologies outside Europe. This
catalogue can hardly be found outside YEESS,
especially with the dominant focus into small
satellites.
Furthermore, the majority of our members are
Gazelle companies (as defined by Eurostat), who
have arrived at over 900 jobs, mainly highly
skilled engineers, that did not exist 5 years
ago, who exist based on new private investments
and who take growth as a strong commitment with
all stakeholders. This segment represents the
vast majority of the growth and new employment
of the space sector.
Not many
other initiatives, from various economy sectors,
can provide this given to new generations in
Europe. Our common destiny, through various
countries in Europe, is also a destiny of
employment, technology, space challenges and
adventure.
But this
initiative requires continuous attention, care
and intelligence, in other to have an
international consolidation that keeps the
aggressive growth rate.
Soon
YEESS will provide its publication from its
observatory of business data, offering those
evidences as a best practice for companies and
institutions.
And
therefore, the initiatives like Copernicus
Contributing Missions or IRIS2
are a must that
makes YEESS sustainable. Thank you for these
bold steps.
Juan Tomás Hernani
President of YEESS
The
YEESS syndicate is an alliance of young European
space entreprises at the service of Europe.
YEESS entreprises are agile and available to
reinvent our
transportation on Earth and to Moon and Mars.
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EDITO
of Mr Jean-Jacques Dordain |
New space
is not new, but continues to be new every day,
with a momentum fed by the convergence between a
growing demand for data, a decrease of costs and
an increasing role of software in the value
chain.
New actors
are entering space based businesses by the day,
generating neo dreams and new realities,
sustaining a momentum of changes in the entire
space sector, young enterprises and legacy
companies, private investors and public
institutions. These changes are not proper to
space, but space contributes more and more all
changes which affect our lives, for the good or
for the bad.
However, in
these changes, the image is different from the
reality; lobbyists, commentators, promoters
provide an image driven by their objectives
rather than by the facts. In particular, Europe
looks brighter and more successful from outside
Europe than from Europe.
The
lobbyists are more on the side of legacy
companies and the commentators look more
interested in weaknesses and failures than by
strenghts and successes.
This is the
reason why, I more than welcome the creation of
the new platform, Young European Space
Entrepreneur Focus, which will give
the floor to young European entrepreneurs who
will give directly their views about the global
picture and how they change that picture.
In order to
support this new platform, I shall sustain my
connections with as many young European
entrepreneurs as possible. They all bring a wind
of change which will put Europe one step higher
in space.
Mr. Jean-Jacques
Dordain
Former
Director General of the European Space Agency
(2003-2015)
Member of
the Advisory Board of the Government of
Luxembourg on Space Resources
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About: Young European Space Entrepreneur Focus |
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YESEF, as its name indicates will be
a Focus that enables executives in space
business to quickly find information on main young enterprises with their synthetic
news. Our Focus will look at companies between 2
and 7 years old and of course we shall select
the most active and innovative ones with
interviews, quotes, and company announcements.
The Newspace movement is extremely active
in Europe and throughout the world. Every day a dozen new
enterprises are created in Europe and engage in a marathon race
to become one day, perhaps a world leader.
Disruptive technologies, dramatic shifts in
business models and value chains, the emergence of start-ups and
a substantial injection of private and public funds are
catalysing the sector’s fast development.
We have created this Space
Entrepreneur Focus platform in order to give a voice to young
European entrepreneurs, to hear and understand their vision and
to offer visibility and networking.
The two
founders and actors of the Focus platform are :
Kevin French,
publisher talk Satellite
Jacques Denavaut,
former communications senior VP of Arianespace and now
Founder and President of communications-smart Unip Lda.
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