Director Civil & Commercial Business Development, Astrobotic Technology

Lindsay Papsidero leads Astrobotic’s civil and commercial space business development portfolio, to include strategy development, payload sales, and strategic partnerships.

Prior to Astrobotic, Lindsay served as the Director of Lunar Communications and Navigation at Crescent Space, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. During her time at Crescent, Lindsay ran the Parsec lunar communications relay business, and developed the product, and strategy, and helped stand up the subsidiary. Before transitioning to Crescent, Lindsay spent 10 years at Lockheed Martin, as a systems architect and systems engineer, working in both commercial and military communications areas, and deep space exploration. She helped stand up

several entrepreneurial initiatives to include GEOShare, LLC and the MILO Space Science Institute, both contributing to her being recognized by SSPI as 2018’s top 20 Space Professionals under 35.

Lindsay spent two years at NASA Wallops Flight Facility as an aerospace engineer in the Mission Systems and GNC branch working on high altitude balloon science telescopes.

Lindsay currently serves on the Georgia State Committee for the US Global Leadership Congress, and has held roles in the Space Generation Advisory Council, and served on the Young Leaders Advisory Board for the Monaco Foundry.

Lindsay holds a bachelor’s in aerospace engineering from Virginia Tech, and a master’s in systems engineering from Johns Hopkins University.