# Luca Rossettini: CEO, D-Orbit

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Founder and CEO of D-Orbit, a space logistics company pioneering orbital transfer vehicles with its ION Satellite Carrier. Italian aerospace engineer who served as an airborne officer in the Italian military before earning a Masters in Aerospace Engineering and a PhD in Advanced Space Propulsion. Won a Fulbright scholarship in 2009 and completed a Technology Entrepreneurship program in Silicon Valley, followed by an internship at NASA Ames Research Center before founding D-Orbit in 2011. Named a finalist for the European Inventor Award 2023 for the D-Orbiter Decommissioning Device (D3).

- **Nationality:** Italian
- **Verification posture:** verified

## Current roles (1)

- [D-Orbit](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/d-orbit.md) Founder & CEO

## Former / Previously (1)

- [NASA](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/nasa.md) Intern, NASA Ames Research Center (2010-01-01 to 2010-12-31) (secondary-verified)

## Sources (2)

1. https://dorbit.space/about-us/
2. https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/european-inventor-award/meet-the-finalists/luca-rossettini


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