Astrium Americas, an EADS North America company, has opened an office to provide Astrium’s in-space propulsion capabilities to the North American market. This new office is based in the Los Angeles area and will initially focus on business development.

“This new office is another step in better serving Astrium’s expanding international in-space propulsion customer base,” said John Schumacher, President of Astrium Americas. “It will help us to offer Astrium’s expertise and capabilities in the in-space propulsion and equipment business to current and new U.S. customers, strengthen existing partnerships in the U.S. and enlarge our supplier base in North America.”

Bob Huebner will lead the business expansion effort as the director of business development for in-space propulsion products and services in North America. Huebner brings 20 years of management and leadership experience in growing in-space propulsion businesses. He also has 15 years of technical experience with rocket propulsion, ramjets, scramjets and turbo machinery.

Astrium Propulsion & Equipment, provides design, development, production, integration and testing of rocket engines, complete space propulsion systems, subsystems and components. It provides propulsion systems and components to international customers with thrust levels range from 8 micro-Newton RIT- Xenon thrusters to the 1,350 kilo-Newton N Vulcan LOX/LH2 thrust chambers used on the Ariane 5 launcher.

Astrium is one of the world’s leading companies in the design, development, manufacture and testing of propulsion subsystems and thrusters for satellites, interplanetary space probes, platforms, automated logistics vehicles, and launch vehicle roll control systems.