SpaceCom 2017

Chris McCormick
Chief Executive Officer
PlanetiQ/Global Weather & Climate Solutions


Mr. McCormick has 30+ years of aerospace and communications engineering and management experience. His expertise has been focused on the development of entirely new mission capability, new components, miniaturization, and tightly coupled functions leading to the development of “Systems on a Chip” for space missions. As Co-Founder and CEO of PlanetiQ, Mr. McCormick is aiding in the space segment design with a focus on payload performance and spacecraft mission accommodation. He is currently performing system design work and management of the next generation of high-performance avionics and the fourth-generation Pyxis radio occultation receivers, after having co-developed the second- and third-generation receivers. Mr. McCormick managed Moog Inc’s Space Sector after Moog purchased Broad Reach Engineering, the company Mr. McCormick founded and ran for 15 years. He oversaw more than 1,000 employees and over $200M in revenue, with facilities in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Mr. McCormick has worked on the spacecraft system level design for numerous space missions, including as systems engineer for the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC) program, for which he performed trade studies and utilized industry best practices to lead development of performance, cost, and schedule requirements and baselines. He was also instrumental in setting up international agreements, ground systems and ground stations.

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