The Aerospace Corporation Promotes Alan Caraway, Gina Galasso, and Donald Sather to Principal Director

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (1/26/05) -- The Aerospace Corporation has announced the promotions of Alan L. Caraway and Donald G. Sather to principal director positions in the Satellite and Launch Control Division, and Gina D. Galasso to principal director in the Electronics System Division at the company’s headquarters in El Segundo, Calif.

Caraway will be responsible for the Spacelift Range organization, directing company support for the spacelift range modernization program, including architecture, design and development of command and control systems, communications networks, range instrumentation, telemetry processing and range automation systems. He advances from systems director of systems engineering and integration in Spacelift Range. Caraway has contributed to a number of important Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office programs over his career at Aerospace, in the Air Force, and in industry. He has extensive experience with future space systems, launch operations for ballistic missile research and development, and space boosters. He also has managed first-of-a-kind satellite, booster, and ground-station acquisitions.

Sather will head the Office of the Chief Engineer for the Satellite and Launch Control Division with responsibility for technical leadership and management of integrated support to the spacelift range modernization program and the Air Force Satellite Control Network. In his most recent position, Sather was director of the Telemetry and Hardware Technology Department, Computer Systems Division, where he managed the Telemetry Data Reduction Center, a key component of the Spacelift Telemetry Acquisition and Reporting System, which enables real-time launch monitoring and rapid postflight data analysis at The Aerospace Corporation’s headquarters and other key launch support sites. Sather has held a number of other key positions associated with the use of advanced computer and data processing systems to streamline launch and satellite operations.

Galasso, in her new assignment, will direct the Sensor Systems Subdivision. She will be responsible for managing the resources and overall operation of the subdivision, including several laboratory and computing facilities used to provide top-level expertise in electro-optical and radar systems engineering and data exploitation. Her most recent assignment was director of the Space Systems Evaluation Department in the Systems Engineering Division. Galasso, a computer scientist, is a co-developer of the Satellite Orbit Analysis Package, an advanced program used to support complex, high-priority space missions. She has a wide range of expertise gained in assignments within the Advanced Projects and Technology Division, where she was the project engineer in charge of a transportable space data link prototype system, and as director of the Modeling and Simulation and the Space Systems Evaluation departments.

The Aerospace Corporation, based in El Segundo, Calif., is an independent, nonprofit company that provides objective technical analyses and assessments for national security space programs and selected civil and commercial space programs in the national interest.