A UNIQUE EXPERIENCED TEAM
PRS was founded in 2023 by a group of experts from academia on electrodynamic tethers (EDTs) and related technologies. With a unique experience of more than 30 years on EDT missions and R&D projects, they decided to take a step forward and create a specialized company to develop and commercialize EDT products that can address the new propulsion needs of the space sector and contribute to its sustainability.
PRS has a passion for sustainable space propulsion technologies based on EDTs and it has an interdisciplinary team on software development, space mechanisms and avionics, and plasma contactors. The company has the goal to design, manufacture, test, market and service EDTs that take advantage of the space environment resources to achieve green and efficient propulsion.
PRS has a strong heritage from several projects funded by the European Innovation Council like E.T.PACK (2019-2022), E.T.PACK-F (2022-2025) and E.T.COMPACT (2024-2027), where key EDT technologies were developed and later transferred to PRS. PRS is also incubated by the ESA-BIC programme and the Technology-based Business Incubation and Acceleration Program of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
OUR TEAM:
Jesús Manuel Muñoz Tejeda
CEO & Co-Founder
Julia Martín-Fuertes Brañas
Mission Analysis Engineer
Gonzalo Sánchez Arriaga
Shareholder
UC3M
Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo
Shareholder
UC3M
Martin
Tajmar
Shareholder
Prof. Dr. Martin Tajmar is the director of the institute of aerospace engineering and head of the space systems chair at TUD Dresden University of Technology. He is an expert in space propulsion focusing on advanced concepts.
TU Dresden
Enrico
Lorenzini
Shareholder
Enrico Lorenzini is a retired professor from the University of Padova (Italy). He is a recognized expert on tethered satellites with more than 180 documents listed in SCOPUS inclusive of a front-cover article in Scientific American (“Fly by Wire”) on electrodynamic tethered satellites. He is in the top 2% most-cited scientists in the world according to the Stanford University analysis of standardized citation indicators of 2021 and 2023.
UNIPD
Andrea Valmorbida
Shareholder
Assistant Professor in Measurements and Technologies for Space,
Department of Industrial Engineering (DII),
Center for Studies and Activities for Space (CISAS) “G. Colombo”
University of Padova
UNIPD
