AUSTIN, TX / EL SEGUNDO, CA—Feb. 22, 2023, Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., a company building data, simulation, and analytics products to make space operations safer, announces CEO and Cofounder, Melanie Stricklan, has been nominated for the most prestigious award in the satellite industry, Via Satellite’s 2022 Satellite Executive of the Year Award. The nominees are chosen for durable contributions made to the global satellite market including innovative technologies, best practices, important services, or any combination of these. Likewise, it recognizes lasting contributions of their achievements.

Under Stricklan's leadership, Slingshot Aerospace experienced exceptional growth in 2022, exceeding expectations by more than doubling its revenue and expanding its customer base globally to include clients in the commercial, defense, and private space sectors. The company secured two oversubscribed funding rounds, totaling $65.45 million, and made two strategic acquisitions, Numerica's Space Domain Awareness division and UK-based Seradata. The acquisitions connect an unparalleled Global Sensor Network, for day/night tracking of satellites and debris, and the industry’s most authoritative space object database with Slingshot’s Digital Space Twin™ platform to create the industry’s most comprehensive view of the space operating domain.  As part of Slingshot’s mission to promote coordination and collaboration among space operators, the company made its Slingshot Beacon "air traffic control for space" product available to the global space community for free.

In addition to her role at Slingshot, Stricklan serves on two prestigious organizations guiding the future of safe space operations. She was appointed to the National Space Council’s Users Advisory Group by Vice President Kamala Harris and named to the Federal Aviation Administration's Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee by U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

Stricklan also played a crucial role in establishing and continuing to champion the Space Workforce 2030 Pledge, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at significantly enhancing diversity and equity for underrepresented groups in the aerospace industry. Today, the pledge has been adopted by several dozen aerospace companies.

The winner of the 2022 Satellite Executive of the Year will be determined by a combination of the Via Satellite editorial team and votes that come directly from industry. The public can vote for Melanie Stricklan online.

"I am deeply honored to be nominated as a 2022 Satellite Executive of the Year by Via Satellite, and I share this recognition with our entire team at Slingshot Aerospace,” said Stricklan. “It is their dedication and hard work that has propelled us on our mission to create a more sustainable and safer space operating domain. There is tremendous momentum in the space industry and I’m honored to be included amongst so many incredible leaders who are making a huge impact in the way we operate in orbit.”

“The Satellite Executive of the Year award remains the most prestigious individual award in our industry. It has been running since 1988 and has seen a wide spectrum of winners across all different parts of the industry,” said Mark Holmes, Sr. Editorial Director of Via Satellite. “The award is the past, the present and the future wrapped in one, and the winner joins a club of people that spans multiple decades and eras.”

Voting closes at noon ET on March 14. The winner will be announced at SATELLITE 2023 on Wednesday, March 15 at the Via Satellite Awards Luncheon, which is open to all conference-level attendees. Register for SATELLITE here. Press can register here.

For more information on the award, or to vote for Melanie Stricklan, please visit https://www.satellitetoday.com/vote.

About Via Satellite

Via Satellite provides essential news and expert business analysis on the global satellite communications marketplace, including current and evolving applications, infrastructure issues, technology, and business and regulatory developments around the word reaches the most engaged community of satellite professionals and qualified industry decision makers.    

About SATELLITE 2023

SATELLITE unites a diverse community of aerospace and connectivity thought leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, engineers, end-users and enthusiasts from around the world for the largest and most important global satellite technology event of the year. The SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition will take place on March 13-16, 2023 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (801 Mt. Vernon Place NW, Washington, DC 20001). For more information, please visit www.SATShow.com.

About Slingshot Aerospace

Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. builds space data, simulation, and analytics products that help worldwide commercial, civil and defense organizations make space operations safer to accelerate space sustainability. The company fuses data from multiple trusted sources, including the Global Sensor Network and the Seradata launch and satellite database, to bring the space domain into the digital environment. With these insights, Slingshot Aerospace customers are empowered to confidently make decisions and achieve clarity in the complexity of the space domain. Slingshot Aerospace was launched in 2017 and has offices in Austin, TX, El Segundo, CA, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins, CO.

Visit slingshotaerospace.com and follow Slingshot Aerospace on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

The Slingshot Aerospace media kit, including photos, can be found HERE.

###

Media contact

Kylee Keskerian

419-822-6417, kylee@futuristacommunications.com

‍