André

ESA's André da Silva, mechanical engineer and part of the Ariane 6 embedded team at Europe's Spaceport Jupiter control room in French Guiana.

André is part of the embedded team so spends most of his time at ArianeGroup’s Les Mureaux site in France following the development of the structures for Ariane 6, working in the embedded team as the technical interface between the rocket’s prime contractor, Ariane Group, and ESA that is the procuring entity for the development of the Ariane launcher. He leads technical risk analyses for ESA, and provides technical support to the development process when needed.