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PARIS,
May 26,
2004/Satnews/
Marc
Pircher, 52, will join Alcatel Space, a subsidiary of Alcatel
(Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) as senior Vice President
and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) effective July 1, 2004.
He will take over from Michel Courtois who will join the
European Space Agency (ESA).
Pircher
comes to Alcatel from the
French national space agency,
Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), where he
is currently Director of Launchers of the
Evry Center. He spent
most of his career at CNES.
Pircher
holds Masters of Science degrees from Stanford University and
France’s premier aeronautical engineering school ENSAE (SUP
AERO) in Toulouse, France.
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