Craig Cooning, newest BridgeSat board member. Photo: BridgeSat.

BridgeSat announced today that aerospace veteran Craig R. Cooning has joined its board of directors. Cooning most recently was president of Network and Space Systems (N&SS) for Boeing.

During his tenure at Boeing, Cooning also served as chairman of the board of United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture owned by Lockheed Martin and Boeing. Cooning joined Boeing in September 2005 after more than three decades of service in the U.S. Air Force, where he retired as a Major General and director of space acquisition in the Office of the Under Secretary of the Air Force.

BridgeSat is developing a global optical communications ground network to serve the commercial satellite community. This network will consist of a global optical ground network to serve Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) customers.