January 15, 2021 Stellar Solutions Founder and Board Chair Celeste Ford was named a recipient of the 2021 E. David Spong Lifetime Achievement Award by the Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. This honor "recognizes individuals who have performed truly extraordinary service, changed their world, and inspired others to do the same," according to [...]
Stellar has made it to the morning news! Melissa and her team performed technical Due Diligence as part of a broader team looking at financial, business, and legal aspects of Momentus, leading to the announcement this week of a SPAC investment which will take Momentus to an IPO next year. Stellar expertise provided by John Ellison, [...]
The Tails of Comet NEOWISE (NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day) Image Credit & Copyright: Miloslav Druckmuller (Brno University of Technology) Today marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis [...]
July 10, 2020. Silicon Valley aerospace company Stellar Solutions has announced that longtime Vice President for Defense Programs Betsy Pimentel will transition to a consulting role for the company effective July 1. Pimentel, who was part of the first U.S. Air Force Academy class of women in 1976, has amassed forty years of proven experience in [...]
May 31, 2020. “People who end up as ‘first’ don’t actually set out to be first. They set out to do something they love.” - Condoleezza Rice As innovators and champions know, being first is a singular experience: there can only be one, and it is truly remarkable. The impact of Saturday’s successful launch of the [...]
May 30, 2020. On behalf of Stellar Solutions, I want to congratulate SpaceX and NASA for making history with the first launch of astronauts by a private company as part of the Commercial Crew Program, as well as ending the gap in U.S. capability we’ve had since 2011. This mission demonstrates that public-private partnerships can deliver [...]
May 30, 2020. A defense thought leadership piece written by Stellar Solutions Advisors was featured in the Early Bird Brief by Defense News/Military Times editors. Here is the full article by Doug Fraser, Frank Gorenc and John Shapland: https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2020/05/13/rolling_back_iran_in_iraq_115285.html .
May 27, 2020. “We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon, and to prepare for new journeys to worlds beyond our own.” -- President George H.W. Bush Wednesday’s planned NASA/SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 launch of astronauts to the International Space Station is making news, [...]
May 9, 2020. “We are providing the most exciting possible answer to the age-old question of whether life, as we know it on Earth, can exist on the Moon and the planets. The answer is yes. Men working together with modern science and technology can extend the domain of terrestrial life throughout the solar system.” -Thomas [...]
February 28, 2020. Launching Stellar Solutions and Delivering Historic Innovation for Our First Customer January 1995 marked the beginning of a truly “stellar” journey that continues today. At that time, I had gained a lot of experience in a variety of technical areas as both an aerospace engineer and a technology manager, through 17 years of [...]
