Jonathan W. Cirtain
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Jonathan W. Cirtain is Chief Executive Officer and President of Axiom Space, and he is also an adjunct professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Michigan. Earlier in his career, he spent seven years at BWX Technologies, where he held roles including Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer, President and CEO of BWXT Medical, and Chief Technology Officer. Before that, he spent nearly a decade at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in leadership roles including Manager of the Heliophysics, Planetary, and Space Weather Office and Chief Strategist, and he also worked as a Research Astrophysicist at Harvard University. He is known for leading teams working on technologies including scientific space payloads, plasma confinement systems, solid rocket motor systems for suborbital vehicles, and graphics processing technologies, and for co-founding Astraea, a machine learning and data science analytics company focused on Earth observation technologies.
Updated 4 September 2026
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