Kevin Sagis. Picture: Dependable Robotics
Dependable Robotics has appointed Kevin Sagis as senior vice chairman and chief engineer.
Sagis joins Dependable Robotics as the corporate accelerates its growth programme to certify its remotely operated plane system.
He has over 30 years of design, growth, manufacturing, take a look at and operational expertise for the business sector, the Nationwide Aeronautics and Area Administration (NASA), and the Division of Protection (DoD). He has efficiently taken a number of programmes to flight, together with specifically modified plane and house launch autos.
In his position at Dependable Robotics, Sagis will drive the engineering imaginative and prescient and execution for the corporate’s remotely operated plane system.
At Virgin Orbit, he served as chief engineer and senior vice chairman of engineering, working with Sir Richard Branson to reimagine how a 747-400 service plane might be used to launch orbital rockets.
As one of many unique visionaries, he was instrumental in forming the group and the expertise that constructed the muse for taking the corporate public. He was answerable for architecting the built-in system from preliminary idea to a number of profitable orbital flights, main a group of a number of hundred engineers.
He has experience in plane methods and directed the structural, electrical and subsystems modification of the 747-400.
Previous to Virgin Orbit, Sagis was at Lockheed Martin as technical lead on a number of rocket and aircraft-related programmes. He was the chief engineer for the homeland defence programme that launched rockets from the cargo maintain of a C-17, reaching 100% mission success inside three years.
Earlier Sagis based and served as chief engineer at Paragon Labs the place he led the design, deployment and manufacturing of a vertical takeoff, vertical touchdown automobile utilizing a liquid oxygen/ethanol regeneratively cooled propulsion system.
Previous to that, he supported a number of business autos for Lockheed Martin, NASA superior idea research and flight design software program for the Area Shuttle programme.
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