Toshihiro Obata

Toshihiro joined Synspective as a member of the Board of Directors and the General Manager of the Satellite System Development Department in April 2019.

Before joining Synspective, Toshihiro was with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation for more than 19 years, first leading the team working on attitude control subsystems for earth observation satellites, then as manager of systems engineering for earth observation satellites.

He also worked for TerraSAR-X in Astrium (now Airbus DS) Friedrichshafen, Germany as an exchange engineer in 2004.

Toshihiro received a M.S. in Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1997 and in 2016, he joined the University of Tokyo to work on the system design of small SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite that is the basis for the demonstration satellites at Synspective.