FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Technology Leader Esther Dyson
Backs
Entrepreneurial Space Team
Alexandria,
VA, April 12, 2006 — Esther Dyson, the influential journalist,
investor and commentator on the information technology (IT)
sector, has joined the Board of Advisors of Constellation
Services International, Inc. (CSI).
“CSI is pleased to welcome
Esther to our Board of Advisors and as an investor. She brings
over 30 years of experience working with the world’s leading
innovators and thinkers in emerging high-tech companies. Esther
will help CSI execute on our plans to commercialize the ISS and
low Earth orbit”,
said Charles Miller, CSI’s President and CEO.
Esther Dyson
is editor of
Release 1.0, CNET Networks' quarterly newsletter. At CNET, she
is also responsible for its high-level conferences and
workshops, including PC Forum, the high-tech market's
leading annual executive conference, and Flight School, a
workshop for the emerging markets of commercial space and air
taxis. At
Release 1.0, which Esther has written/edited since 1983, and
in her private investment activities, Dyson focuses on emerging
technologies, emerging companies and emerging markets. She is an
active investor in numerous IT start-ups and several commercial
space ventures.
Esther Dyson said: “The CSI
space cargo system is a proven and simple solution to a complex
problem, and reminds me of many successful and profitable
innovations in the IT world. I’m delighted to be supporting a
start-up in the commercial-space marketplace. I believe that
CSI can play an important role in invigorating and leading this
market.”
CSI was founded in 1998 as a
commercial space services company and has invested over five
years and several million dollars developing a commercial
service to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) using
proven off-the-shelf technology. CSI’s patented LEO ExpressSM
space cargo system
completed a NASA system design review in July 2003, and will be
able to deliver cargo to the ISS by 2008. CSI teammates include
Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Oceaneering Space Systems, ARES,
Odyssey Space Research, Barrios Technology, International Space
Brokers, and Hannon Armstrong.
CSI has offices in Woodland
Hills, CA, Alexandria, VA, and Houston, TX. For more information
on CSI, visit
http://www.constellationservices.com,
or send a request to
jmuncy@constellationservices.com.
"LEO Express" is a trademark
and service mark of Constellation Services International, Inc. |
