Andrew Kalman

Andrew E. Kalman, PhD. is Founder, President and Chief Technologist of Pumpkin, Inc. based in San Francisco. Pumpkin is the parent of Pumpkin Space Systems, which designs and builds turn-key spacecraft buses for the most sophisticated NanoSat missions. Pumpkin is also the owner of CubeSat Kit (TM) the internationally adopted family of COTS components for orbit. Salvo RTOS, a unique real-time operation system, which also extensive flight heritage, including on orbit, is also part of the Pumpkin family. Pumpkin was founded in 1995 and has flight heritage on countless missions. Dr. Kalman is Director of Stanford’s Space and Systems Development Laboratory (SSDL), which created the CubeSat standard. Dr. Kalman is a Consulting Professor in the Aero/Astro Department at Stanford University. He earned his doctorate in Electrical Engineering at The University of Florida and BS at Stanford.