Aryeh Halzband, the retiring CEO will serve as a senior advisor to the global company
Ofir Azriel Appointed CEO of Astroscale Israel, which develops satellite service and long-term orbital sustainability. He will replace you Arya Helzband, the founder and CEO, one of the pioneers of the Israeli space industry, who announced his retirement and will henceforth serve as a senior advisor to the global company.
Azriel (43) is a graduate of the Talfiot program and has 20 years of experience in the Israeli space industry. In the last seven years, he held the position of VP of Technologies and Vice President of Engineering, within Astroscale Israel and in its previous incarnation as Effective Spice, before it was acquired by Astroscale Global. He accompanied Helzband during the company's acquisition and merger processes and worked together with him to build a laboratory for mechanical design, production and assembly of standard space systems and a robotic laboratory for computer vision. The final products of the two new facilities will be integrated into Astroscale's service satellites, which are designed to extend the life of communications satellites.
"Aryeh is a visionary and a pioneer in the Israeli and international space community," he said Novo Okada, CEO and founder of Astroscale Global. "As a fellow entrepreneur, I want to thank him for his boldness in promoting the space industry, his uncompromising commitment to promoting space sustainability, and for being a pioneer in the development of the technologies that will help extend the life of geosynchronous (GEO) satellites."
"Astroscale Israel is a very important research and development center for our service satellites for the removal of debris and the return to life of malfunctioning satellites," he said Ron Lopez, President and CEO of Astroscale USA. "We are happy that Aryeh will continue to work for the benefit of the maturation of our solutions and are convinced that under Ofir's leadership, Astroscale Israel will continue to be a pillar in global society and in the Israeli space industry."
Astroscale is the only company in the world today that focuses exclusively on providing services in space both in low satellite orbit and in geosynchronous orbit. The company develops satellite solutions in a variety of sizes that will be used for a variety of tasks in space, such as extending the life of satellites, disposing of space debris and changing the position of satellites while in orbit in space. The company's base is located in Japan with a presence in the USA, UK, Singapore and Israel.
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