Courses & Events
Mars Shot: India Reshaping the Global Space Landscape
Thursday, Oct 26, 2017
04:30 pm - 05:50 pm
Susmita Mohanty CEO at Earth2Orbit
Details
Open to the Public – no RSVP required
NEW LOCATION THIS FALL:
Venue
- William R. Hewlett Teaching Center, Room 201, 370 Serra Mall, Stanford University [Google Map]
Parking
- Via Ortega Garage, 498 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305 [Google Map]
- Roth Way Garage, 345 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305 [Google Map]
- Please check parking signs carefully to ensure that permitted parking and metered spaces are free after 4:00 pm.
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E-mail Briana Burrows, Assistant Director, at <briana.burrows [at] stanford [dot] edu> with questions about the seminar series.
** Stanford students: Register for EASTASN-402A (cross listed as EE-402A), one-unit seminar, pass-no credit; open to all majors with no prerequisites.
Speakers
Susmita Mohanty
CEO, Earth2Orbit
SUSMITA MOHANTY is a spaceship designer and serial space entrepreneur. She is the cofounder and CEO of EARTH2ORBIT, India’s first private space start-up. She has cofounded and led two other companies, MOONFRONT in San Francisco [2001-2007] and LIQUIFER in Vienna [2004-ongoing].
Before turning entrepreneur, Susmita worked in business development for the International Space Station program at Boeing in California. She also worked on Shuttle-Mir missions at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Since 1998, Susmita has worked with the Americans, Japanese, Europeans, Russians and Indians in various capacities, as employee, consultant, contractor, entrepreneur and advisor.
In 2005, Susmita was honored on Capitol Hill [Washington DC] with the International Achievement Award for promoting international cooperation through entrepreneurial space ventures. In 2012, she was voted into Financial Times’ list of “25 Indians to Watch”. In 2016, she was nominated to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Future Council for Space Technologies.
Educated in India, France, and Sweden, Susmita holds multiple degrees including a PhD.
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