Ecliptic: Systems for Accessing and Experiencing Space and Other Extreme Environments

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Ecliptic Management Profiles

David Yoel

Business Development Lead

Before partnering with Ecliptic via his own consulting firm American Aerospace Advisors, Dave had an extensive career working with hundreds of advanced industrial furnace systems. Most recently, he was VP US Sales for Consarc Corp., a leading global manufacturer of large, custom, vacuum and controlled atmosphere furnaces for melting and refining specialty metals, crystal growth and high temperature heat treating (to 3,000°C;). Before that, he was Product Manager at Centorr/Vacuum Industries where he focused on furnaces for debinding and sintering powdered metals, brazing, and visual process monitoring. Before CVI, Dave was Founder and President of Insight Scientific, where he developed a unique, new line of "transparent" laboratory furnaces. Before Insight as Production Manager at Western Filter, he managed the rapid 200+% increase in production required to support Operation Desert Storm. His first job in this field was at Hetherington Inc., where he managed sales, marketing, field service, and manufacturing.

In the first phase of his career, Dave was a commercial space champion at Boeing Aerospace, working on a half dozen space projects. He invented and led development of the Crystals by Vapor Transport Experiment (CVTE) payload, a commercial crystal growth system launched aboard Shuttle mission STS-52 in 1992. Dave negotiated a Joint Endeavor Agreement (JEA) with NASA for several Shuttle missions in exchange for shared CVTE processing time on orbit. He led a team responsible for developing preliminary design requirements for the Space Station Laboratory Module. He also evaluated and developed designs for dozens of Shuttle, Station and free-flying payloads, and directed the company's participation in two NASA Centers for Commercial Development of Space. Prior to joining Boeing, as a graduate student Dave designed Get Away Special #001, the very first university student payload launched in the Space Shuttle program (STS-4, 1982).

  • M.S. in Physics at Utah State University (Logan)
  • B.S. in Physics at Cleveland State University

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