_posts/2025-01-26-mark-rutten-pmc-member.md

+---
+title: "Mark Rutten nominated as Orekit PMC member"
+excerpt: "The Orekit team is happy to welcome a new PMC member: Mark Rutten."
+layout: post_orekit
+publication_year: 2025
+date: 2025-01-26 00:00:00 +0100
+modified: 2025-01-26 00:00:00 +0100
+project: orekit
+categories:
+- News
+tags:
+- news
+- team
+- pmc
+---
+
+The Orekit team is happy to welcome a new PMC member: Mark Rutten (@markrutten).
+
+Mark Rutten’s work covers non-linear estimation, tracking and sensor fusion, including orbit determination for space situational awareness.  
+He runs a small consultancy, InTrack Solutions, in Australia.
+
+Mark has been elected as committer in July 2023 for his already important contributions, and has continued to work on both Orekit and Hipparchus since then!
+
+The full list of Orekit PMC members as of 2025-01-17 is therefore:
+- Anne-Olivia Biramben (CS GROUP)
+- Bryan Cazabonne (Airbus Defence and Space)
+- Paul Cefola (University at Buffalo)
+- Frank Dreger (European Space Agency - ESOC)
+- Hank Grabowski (Independent Expert)
+- Sébastien Herbinière (Thales Alenia Space)
+- 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 - ESTEC)
+- Pascal Parraud (CS GROUP)
+- Mark Rutten (InTrack Solutions)
+- Romain Serra (Exotrail)
+- Evan Ward (Naval Research Laboratory)
+
+Welcome to Mark!
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       <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>Mark Rutten (InTrack Solutions)</li>
       <li>Evan Ward (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)</li>
     </ul>