Spaceflight Inc. Promotes Curt Blake to President

Seattle, Wash., March 6, 2014--Launch services provide Spaceflight Inc. has promoted Curt Blake as its new President. Blake, who previously served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel, has led efforts to expand Spaceflight’s global network of launch service providers while building relationships with key commercial-, civilian- and defense-related customers.

Blake has more than 25 years of executive experience in high-growth and tech industries, with past experience including a range of senior executive and general counsel roles at Microsoft, Starwave, Corbis and Aldus.

Spaceflight helps organizations launch small satellites into space by offering a “one-stop-shop” service that manifests, certifies and integrates multiple auxiliary payloads onto a single launch vehicle. Spaceflight contracts excess capacity on its worldwide network of partner launch vehicles, thereby enabling cost-effective launch services for small-satellite customers while securing additional revenue for the launch service provider.

In the last three years, Blake oversaw Spaceflight’s first four commercial rideshare launches, on the Antares, Soyuz and Dnepr vehicles, from sales to mission management to launch. Blake is a current member of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation Board and contributor to numerous small-satellite conferences.

Spacefligh  provides frequent, cost-effective and routine access to space for deployed and hosted payloads. Spaceflight specializes in the launch of CubeSats, nanosats and microsats with masses between 1 kg and 300 kg. Since 2011, Spaceflight has launched more than 36 satellites with more than 50 in the pipeline through 2015.