Jeff Schloemer is the Senior Director of Engineering at Astroscale U.S. With over 15 years of experience in the aerospace industry, he is helping build a sustainable circular economy in space through life-extension, refueling, and other regenerative satellite services. Prior to Astroscale U.S., Jeff led satellite CONOPS development for a national security program at Lockheed Martin. In his time at Raytheon, he acted as a chief engineer and led business development efforts for new space system capabilities and enterprise testing development and execution. Jeff’s public body of work includes a patent and papers, having received recognition for his work in space constellation management optimization and decentralized control, and authoring several papers on systems engineering advancements in aerospace. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 2008 with a BS in Aerospace and earned his MS in Aerospace in 2009.