RECENT NEWS
2021 Jan 06
Ecliptic is on the Dynetics team providing high-definition video systems and auxiliary/secondary payload control and data management avionics2020 Dec 23
Ecliptic's sequencer avionics will control the ejection of smallsats and CubeSats from three different firms manifested on this launch, leveraging heritage from the 2018 Falcon 9 SSO-A launch where Ecliptic sequencers successfuly controlled 60 of the 64 satellite ejections2020 Nov 13
Ecliptic is on the development team for ExoCam2020 Oct 23
Ecliptic provided context-imaging cameras to support these RRM3 tests and demonstrations
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Cygnus
Northrop Grumman CRS mission #16 (NG-16, on Antares 230) (approx. date) - Dec 15
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Cygnus
Northrop Grumman CRS mission #17 (NG-17, on Antares 230) (approx. date)
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Mike Alvarez
CEO, Board Member, Officer
Mike has extensive experience in satellite control systems and test equipment in support of mission operations, and is an accomplished software engineer and software development manager.
He is responsible for Ecliptic's financial results and for coordinating the firm's overall corporate strategy while also coordinating some of the business-development, sales operations and customer relations with Ecliptic's larger clients. He also contributes to the firm's R&D planning efforts and to various technical contracts. Mike was Ecliptic's VP of Business Development for 8 years (2011-2018) and VP of Engineering for 5 years (2006-2010).
Before coming to Ecliptic, Mike worked for ten years as a software development engineer and manager for satellite control systems used for geostationary communications satellites, supporting over a dozen actual missions. He held positions of increasing levels of responsibility for nine years at L3 Communications, Storm Control Systems Division, where he managed a team of software development engineers, developed customer requirements and derived product requirements, executed software and mission operations testing phases and supported Storm's ISO 9000 process development and certification initiative. Mike worked at Hughes Information Technology Systems before transferring to Storm Control Systems. (Storm Control Systems was acquired by L-3 in 1998.)
Before his work at Hughes and L3, he worked as a mechanical engineer at a paper plant in China and as a staff engineer and teaching assistant at the University of California in Santa Barbara.
- M.S. Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara
- B.S. Mathematics and Applied Science, University of California at Los Angeles