Starfighters Space has hired two former Blue Origin New Glenn managers to help advance its air-launch system toward flight demonstrations and operational cadence.
The Cape Canaveral, Florida-based company said May 7 that Jose Arias has joined as vice president of space operations, while Catrina Medeiros was named director of operations for Starlaunch, the service that would use a fleet of supersonic F-104 jets as the first-stage lifting platform for payloads released at altitude.
Arias previously served at Blue Origin as a senior manufacturing engineer and integration and production lead, working across propulsion system hardware.
