Miki Ito

Miki Ito joined Astroscale Japan Inc. as President in April 2015. While working as a full-time engineer for the key technology demonstration mission of ELSA-d, she advocates our mission and gives lectures on STEM educational programs. Prior to Astroscale, Miki worked as a researcher at JASTEC to coach international students from overseas in satellite manufacturing. She also worked as a researcher at NESTRA where she participated in the HODOYOSHI-3 and HODOYOSHI-4 microsatellites projects, which were developed by the University of Tokyo under the FIRST (Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology) program funded by the Japanese Government. In this role, Miki has involved in thermal and structural design as well as test operations.