Will Marshall

Will Marshall

Co-Founder & CEO @ Planet

About

Will Marshall is Co-Founder & CEO of Planet Labs PBC. Will is a scientist-turned-entrepreneur with extensive experience building and leading teams in the technology space, at NASA and now at Planet, having grown the team from the garage to a company of over 600 people. He oversees the vision, product and business strategy - carrying out Planet’s mission, as written into the Public Benefit Corporation charter, to accelerate humanity toward a more sustainable and secure world. Will was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and serves on the board of the Open Lunar Foundation. Prior to Planet, Will was a Scientist at NASA where he helped formulate the Small Spacecraft Office, worked on a number of missions including LCROSS, LADEE and PhoneSat and did research on orbital space debris remediation. Will holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oxford and a Masters in Physics with Space Science and Technology from the University of Leicester. He was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at George Washington University and Harvard.

Country

United States

City

San Francisco

Industry

Aviation & Aerospace

Skill

Space Systems, Physics, Systems Engineering, Simulations, Aerospace, Matlab, Spacecraft, Science

Experience

Planet

Co-Founder & CEO

Planet

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2012-2 - Present · 14 yrs 8 mos

San Francisco, CA

NASA Ames Research Center

Scientist

NASA Ames Research Center

LinkedIn
2006-5 - 2012-1 · 5 yrs 9 mos

Developing low cost satellites and systems to remediate orbital space debris via USRA. Co-I, PhoneSat mission (ultra-low cost satellite with bus based on a smartphone) Co-I, LightForce (remediation of orbital space debris using photon pressure to nudge debris so as to prevent debris-debris collisions and thus slow the Kessler cascade) Science Team, LCROSS (lunar impactor mission which found large quantities of water on the Moon). System's Engineer, LADEE (lunar orbitor mission) System's Engineer, Common Spacecraft Bus (modular planetary spacecraft) System's Engineer, Hover Test Vehicle (ground-based test vehicle for lunar descent and landing)

Space Generation Advisory Council

Chair

Space Generation Advisory Council

2005 - 2007 · 2 yrs
European Space Agency - ESA

Stagiaire

European Space Agency - ESA

LinkedIn
1999 - 1999

The Netherlands

Astrophysics

NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center

Summer Intern

NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center

1998 - 1998

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Fusion Propulsion

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Summer Intern

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

1997 - 1997

Worked on the KidSat project -- taking images from the Space Shuttle.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Summer Intern

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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1997 - 1997

Pasadena, CA

Space Science

Education

International Space University

International Space University

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2006 - 2007 · 1 yr

Lecturer

Harvard University

Harvard University

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Space Policy

2005 - 2006 · 1 yr
UC Santa Barbara

UC Santa Barbara

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Quantum Optics

2002 - 2004 · 2 yrs

Part of Ph.D. research

University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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Physics, Quantum Optics

2000 - 2004 · 4 yrs

Ph.D. Thesis: "Towards Quantum Superpositions of a Mirror" Advisors: Prof. Dirk Bouwmeester, Prof. Sir Roger Penrose

University of Leicester

University of Leicester

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Physics and Space Science

1996 - 2000 · 4 yrs
The University of Alabama in Huntsville

The University of Alabama in Huntsville

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Fusion propulsion

1998 - 1998

Will Marshall's Contact Information

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