Yves Durand
Director of Technology, Thales Alenia SpaceYves Durand is currently Director of Technology for Thales Alenia Space. He has been involved for more than forty years in space activities, at NASA Goddard, then Aerospatiale, which later became Thales Alenia Space, where is worked on the Ariane 5 launcher, telecommunication satellites and constellations, observation satellite design and program management. He is now in the Technical Directorate of Thales Alenia Space where he coordinates technology developments and several R&D project such as space data centers.