• Starfighters Space named Jose Arias vice president, space operations, to oversee all space-related operations as it advances development of STARLAUNCH.
• Arias joins from Blue Origin, where he was senior manufacturing engineer and integration and production lead on propulsion system hardware.
• Catrina L. Medeiros was appointed director, STARLAUNCH operations, to lead execution of Wind Tunnel in the Sky and STARLAUNCH I under Arias.
• Medeiros most recently served at Blue Origin as operations manager for New Glenn Stage 2 and the precision cleaning facility programs; she previously spent more than 10 years at Lockheed Martin Space Systems as a senior manufacturing planner on NASA’s Orion crew module program.

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