Change in EurasSpace Management: Helmut Kappel To Become New Managing Director
Munich/Friedrichshafen, 23 September 2003
Helmut Kappel is going to be the new managing director of EurasSpace - Gesellschaft für Raumfahrttechnik mbH (Munich). This was decided by the shareholders' committee during its September meeting. As of October 1, 2003, Mr. Kappel will succeed Dr. Klaus Ninke, managing director of EurasSpace since its formation in 1994 and now retiring.
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Mr. Helmut Kappel, 58-year-old certified engineer for electrical engineering and certified industrial engineer, has more than three decades of professional experience in various aerospace companies. Thus, for example, he had been managing director of Jena Optronik GmbH for eight years. At present, Mr. Kappel is deputy director for business development at EADS Astrium GmbH in Friedrichshafen.
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In 1967, Dr. Ninke, graduate lawyer, started his professional career in aerospace technology at the former Bölkow KG in Ottobrunn. Klaus Ninke is one of the cofounders of EurasSpace which has been under his management from the very beginning. In 1998, the Technical University of Harbin awarded the title of "Advisory Professor" to Dr. Ninke to honour the German-Chinese collaboration in the field of space technology.
EurasSpace was set up in 1994. It is a joint venture owned on a fifty-fifty basis by EADS-Astrium and the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). The company's successful 'In-Orbit' delivery of the first European-built communications satellite Sinosat-1 to the operator Sinosatcom (Beijing) was one of the flagship activities. Early this year EurasSpace signed a contract to deliver the world´s largest antenna measuring range to China.
EADS-Astrium is wholly owned by the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS. In 2002, EADS-Astrium had a turnover of approximately EUR1.2 billion and 7,200 employees in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Spain. EADS-Astrium's satellite activities cover civil and military telecommunications and Earth observation systems, navigation and science programmes, and spacecraft avionics and equipment.
Munich/Friedrichshafen, September 23, 2003/03023
For further information:
EADS Astrium (FR)
Remi Roland
Tel: +33 (0) 1 3488 3578
remi.roland@astrium.eads.net
EADS Astrium (UK)
Alistair Scott
Tel: +44(0) 1438 77 3698
alistair.scott@astrium.eads.net
EADS Astrium (GER)
Mathias Pikelj
Tel: +49 (0) 7545 8 9123
presse-de@astrium.eads.net
