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Earthquakes in the News

October 20, 2019. Stellar Solutions’ humanitarian R&D initiative, QuakeFinder, is reviewing data from stations near two earthquakes in California that occurred on October 14 and 15. In addition, California unveiled the first statewide earthquake early warning system to provide seconds […]

Celeste Ford Wins First-Ever Silicon Valley “Woman of Wisdom” Award

October 12, 2019. Celeste Ford, Founder and Board Chair of Stellar Solutions, Inc., a global aerospace engineering services leader, will be honored with the inaugural Silicon Valley “Woman of Wisdom” Award by the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce. She will […]

Stellar-Supported NASA ICON Mission Successfully Launches!

October 11, 2019. We are excited to report that NASA’s Ionospheric CONnection Explorer (ICON) mission successfully launched last night and is now in orbit. During the first pass of the Northrop Grumman L-1011 Stargazer through the launch zone, the Pegasus XL drop […]

Betsy Pimentel Shows the Sky is the Limit for Women in Aerospace

October 9, 2019.  Stellar Solutions’ Vice President for Defense Programs, Betsy Pimentel, has been at the forefront of aerospace engineering, space exploration and defense throughout a career that has reached great heights in the public and private sectors.  Also notable is […]

Celeste Ford Spotlighted in Enterprising Women Magazine

October 03, 2019 Celeste Ford, founder and Board Chair of Stellar Solutions has been featured in the Fall 2019 issue of Enterprising Women. The text from the article can be found below along with a download link. The print edition of Enterprising Women celebrated […]

United Arab Emirates Makes History in Space

September 30, 2019.  The First Arab to Reach Low-Earth Orbit In my role managing this region for Stellar’s international sector, I am excited to report that giant leaps in space are being made across the Arab world.  Last week, an […]

QuakeFinder Team Proposal Succeeds in Phase 2 of $1.2M NGA R&D Competition

September 27, 2019. We are excited to announce that Stellar is one of five winners in Phase 2 of MagQuest, a $1.2 million National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) competition to advance geomagnetic data collection for the World Magnetic Model.  The pioneering research of […]

Celeste Ford Interview with The Kamla Show

September 19, 2019. Stellar Solutions Founder and Board Chair Celeste Ford recently interviewed with The Kamla Show as part of its Women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) series. The interview aired in multiple markets nationwide and will continue to […]

New Waves of Space Policy

September 19, 2019. Recent events in the news are a reminder of how the aerospace and technology world is constantly changing in ways that Stellar is striving to address, just as the entrepreneurial landscape remains even more dynamic and competitive. Shifts […]

Stellar and SMC 2.0 – Transforming the Business of Space

August 19, 2019. Part of the United States Air Force Space Command, the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) in Los Angeles provides principal development and acquisition for military space capabilities. The SMC is in the process of implementing a […]

Stellar Solutions Facilitates NATO Missile Defense “Table-Top Exercise”

August 2, 2019. In January 2019, Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (SFN) conducted their fifth in a series of table-top exercises (TTXs), and Stellar Solutions played a vital role in the event as both leader and facilitator.  Attended by […]

Betsy Pimentel Interview on Yahoo Finance Live

July 22, 2019. On Friday July 19, 2019, Betsy J. Pimentel, Vice President, Defense Programs at Stellar Solutions, Inc. appeared on Yahoo Finance LIVE – Yfi AM, a nationwide web-based news program, to discuss the historic anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.  Betsy was […]