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_posts/2024-05-15-spring-mercato-pmc.md

+---
+title: "Spring Mercato at the PMC: Welcome Christophe and Anne-Olivia!"
+excerpt: "The Orekit team is happy to welcome our new PMC members."
+layout: post_orekit
+publication_year: 2024
+date: 2024-05-15 12:41:14 +02:00
+modified: 2024-05-15 12:41:14 +02:00
+project: orekit
+categories:
+- News
+tags:
+- news
+- team
+---
+
+Following professional changes, the composition of Orekit's PMC (Project
+Management Committee) has undergone several changes in recent weeks :
+* Nicolas Frouvelle is replaced by Anne-Olivia Biramben, as CS GROUP
+  representative
+* Sébastien Herbinière is replaced by Christophe Le Bris, as Thales Alenia
+  Space representative
+* Sébastien Herbinière remains a member of the PMC, as an independent expert
+
+**Anne-Olivia Biramben** has been head of the CS GROUP's Flight Dynamics and
+Science department for many years. She has actively supported the Orekit
+project since its inception.
+
+For over 20 years at Thales Alenia Space, **Christophe Le Bris** has worked
+the first few years as a software architect for flight software, and later on
+in mission analysis and flight dynamics. He has particularly worked on mission
+analysis for telecom constellations (O3b, Iridium), and more recently, on the
+development of algorithms to solve the low-thrust GTO-GEO transfer problem for
+the Spacebus Neo family. He has also implemented them in the FDS used for
+orbit raising, using the Orekit library.
+
+The full list of Orekit PMC members as of 2024-05-15 is therefore:
+* Anne-Olivia Biramben (CS GROUP)
+* Bryan Cazabonne (Airbus Defence and Space)
+* Paul Cefola (University at Buffalo)
+* Frank Dreger (European Space Agency)
+* Hank Grabowski (independent expert)
+* Sébastien Herbinière (independent expert)
+* Petrus Hyvönen (Swedish Space Corporation)
+* Yannick Jeandroz (Airbus Defence and Space)
+* Maxime Journot (CS GROUP)
+* Christophe Le Bris (Thales Alenia Space)
+* Stéphanie Lizy-Destrez (ISAE)
+* Luc Maisonobe (Thales Alenia Space)
+* Guillermo Ortega (European Space Agency)
+* Pascal Parraud (CS GROUP)
+* Romain Serra (Exotrail)
+* Evan Ward (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)
+
+Welcome Anne-Olivia and Christophe!
+
+And many thanks to Nicolas Frouvelle for his many years of involvement in
+Orekit's PMC and his support for the project.

index.html

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: About Orekit
 excerpt: Orekit is a low level space dynamics library
 date: 2019-08-17 00:30:10 +02:00
-modified: 2023-05-11 14:47:19 +02:00
+modified: 2024-05-15 12:15:05 +02:00
 layout: home_orekit
 ---
 
@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ layout: home_orekit
       critical operations.</p>
 
     <p>As a library, Orekit provides basic elements (orbits, dates, attitude,
-      frames...) and various algorithms to handle them (conversions,
-      propagations, pointing...).</p>
+      frames&hellip;) and various algorithms to handle them (conversions,
+      propagations, pointing&hellip;).</p>
 
-    <h2><span class="fa fa-code"></span>Java & Python APIs</h2>
+    <h2><span class="fa fa-code"></span>Java &amp; Python APIs</h2>
 
     <p>Orekit is developed
       <a href="/site-orekit-latest/apidocs/index.html">in Java</a>.
@@ -51,10 +51,9 @@ layout: home_orekit
       related documentation and tests.</p>
 
     <p>Orekit is distributed under the
-      <a href="/license.html">Apache License version 2.0</a>,
-      a well known business-friendly license. This means anybody can use it to
-      build any application, free or not. There are no strings attached to
-      user code.</p>
+      <a href="/license.html">Apache License version 2.0</a>, a well known
+      business-friendly license. This means anybody can use it to build any
+      application, free or not. There are no strings attached to user code.</p>
 
   </div>
 
@@ -118,11 +117,11 @@ layout: home_orekit
       </li>
 
       <li><span class="fa-li fa-lg fa fa-gears"></span>
+
         <p><a href="https://www.exotrail.com">Exotrail</a> uses Orekit as
-    a low-level astrodynamics layer for its mission analysis and
-    constellation design software spacestudio<sup class="tm">TM</sup>,
-          and its constellation operation software
-          spacetower<sup class="tm">TM</sup>.</p>
+          a low-level astrodynamics layer for its mission analysis and
+          constellation design software spacestudio<sup class="tm">TM</sup>,
+          and its constellation operation software spacetower<sup class="tm">TM</sup>.</p>
       </li>
 
       <li><span class="fa-li fa-lg fa fa-gears"></span>
@@ -169,27 +168,28 @@ layout: home_orekit
     <h2><span class="fa fa-institution"></span>Open governance</h2>
 
     <p>The Orekit project is driven according to an
-      <a href="/governance.html">open governance model</a>,
-      involving representatives from different space field actors in a Project
+      <a href="/governance.html">open governance model</a>, involving
+      representatives from different space field actors in a Project
       Management Committee (PMC).</p>
 
     <h3>PMC members</h3>
 
     <ul>
+      <li>Anne-Olivia Biramben (CS GROUP)</li>
       <li>Bryan Cazabonne (Airbus Defence and Space)</li>
       <li>Paul Cefola (University at Buffalo)</li>
       <li>Frank Dreger (European Space Agency)</li>
-      <li>Nicolas Frouvelle (CS GROUP)</li>
-      <li>Hank Grabowski (Independent Expert)</li>
-      <li>Sébastien Herbinière (Thales Alenia Space)</li>
+      <li>Hank Grabowski (independent expert)</li>
+      <li>Sébastien Herbinière (independent expert)</li>
       <li>Petrus Hyvönen (Swedish Space Corporation)</li>
       <li>Yannick Jeandroz (Airbus Defence and Space)</li>
       <li>Maxime Journot (CS GROUP)</li>
+      <li>Christophe Le Bris (Thales Alenia Space)</li>
       <li>Stéphanie Lizy-Destrez (ISAE)</li>
       <li>Luc Maisonobe (Thales Alenia Space)</li>
       <li>Guillermo Ortega (European Space Agency)</li>
       <li>Pascal Parraud (CS GROUP)</li>
-	  <li>Romain Serra (Exotrail)</li>
+	    <li>Romain Serra (Exotrail)</li>
       <li>Evan Ward (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)</li>
     </ul>