Diego Escobar holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and more than 19 years of international experience in the space market within GMV. During this time, he has always been involved in projects in the field of orbital mechanics, with particular emphasis on navigation systems (GNSS), precise orbit determination (POD), space surveillance and tracking (SST) and space traffic management (STM).
Diego currently heads the division responsible for SST&STM programs in Spain within the Space Surveillance and Traffic Management Business Unit of GMV. He has played a leading role in numerous SST programs, including the Spanish SST program and in various contracts within ESA’s Space Safety program and the EU SST Support Framework.
Last, but not least, he is an internationally recognized expert in orbit determination and correlation techniques for object cataloguing purposes as well as in collision avoidance aspects.