Richard Osborne

Richard Osborne is AstroAgency’s Chief Technology Officer. He has extensive industry experience across the space value chain extending back to the early 1990s, previously worked as Programme Manager at an orbital launch company, as well as launch systems, spaceports and propulsion consultancy for companies including Reaction Engines and Airborne Engineering, and systems engineering and analysis for numerous space industry projects including ESA payloads to the Mir space station and NASA Earth Observation and Russian Mars missions. A Chartered Physicist, he has a B.Sc(Hons) in Physics, M.Sc in Remote Sensing and Planetary Physics, studied for a Solar Astrophysics PhD, specialising in stellar magnetohydrodynamics and solar flares, and is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and British Interplanetary Society