SpaceX
Zach Fleetwood is a seasoned engineer with extensive experience in satellite operations, network engineering, and radiation effects. Currently serving as a Senior Satellite Operations & Reliability Engineer and Manager of Network Operations at SpaceX since February 2018, Zach has a strong background in network operations engineering and software automation. Prior to joining SpaceX, Zach worked at Georgia Institute of Technology from August 2012 to February 2018, where responsibilities included leading radiation testing projects, managing lab operations, and contributing to numerous peer-reviewed publications. Previous roles also include positions at Sandia National Laboratories, Vanderbilt University, and the Institute of Software Integrated Systems, focusing on automated testing, radiation effects research, and programming. Zach holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Space Radiation Effects from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Vanderbilt University.
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SpaceX
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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA. SpaceX believes a fully and rapidly reusable rocket is the pivotal breakthrough needed to substantially reduce the cost of space access. The majority of the launch cost comes from building the rocket, which historically has flown only once. Compare that to a commercial airliner – each new plane costs about the same as Falcon 9 but can fly multiple times per day and conduct tens of thousands of flights over its lifetime. Following the commercial model, a rapidly reusable space launch vehicle could reduce the cost of traveling to space by a hundredfold. While most rockets are designed to burn up on reentry, SpaceX rockets can not only withstand reentry but can also successfully land back on Earth and refly again. SpaceX’s family of Falcon launch vehicles are the first and only orbital class rockets capable of reflight. Depending on the performance required for the mission, Falcon lands on one of our autonomous spaceport droneships out on the ocean or one of our landing zones near our launch pads.