Chuck Beames, executive chairman of York Space Systems and founder of the
SmallSat Alliance, is joining the board of advisors for
Slingshot Aerospace, a space situational awareness company based in Texas and California. He joins
KD Geospatial Solutions CEO Karen Diener, former
Beames previously served as the president of
Vulcan Aerospace, where he managed asset allocation of a $1 billion aerospace and technology investment portfolio, and directed all aspects of its Stratolaunch project.
Slingshot Aerospace was founded in 2017 with a mission to provide space situational awareness data to government and commercial customers. The company harvests data from satellites and ground-based sensors and uses machine-learning technologies to produce advanced analytics for decision-making in complex space environments. In its four years of operation, it has signed contracts with