Speakers

Colonel Robert A. Fabian, USAF (Ret.)

Rob Fabian is the Chief Operating Officer of Vaya Space, where he leads the engineering, development, and testing of its Dauntless space launch vehicle including all its ground support equipment and launch pads at SLC-13 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as well as all work on the application of Vaya’s vortex hybrid rocket engines for Defense purposes.  He serves on the Board of the Space Coast Consortium Apprenticeship Program, a non-profit apprenticeship program providing training, job skills, and academic credits in Mechatronics, Fiber Composites, and Advance Machining in cooperation with Eastern Florida State College and was the founding President of the Florida Chapter of the Space Force Association.

He has over twenty-five years of military space operations and rocket booster sustainment and repair experience.  His military career has covered a wide range of military space capabilities including tracking satellites with radio telescopes and radar systems, planning the modernization of the Air Force’s space control capabilities, and writing Air Force doctrine for planning and executing space operations.  He has worked military and civil space policy issues across multiple Federal Agencies while working for the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy as well as spending a year as an Air Force Fellow at RAND researching policy options for military cooperation in space with U.S. allies. During his military career, he also worked extensively with the Air Force’s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile fleets, leading field repair and sustainment efforts on both the Minuteman III and Peacekeeper missiles as well as coordinating operations between the ICBM repair depot, system program office, and the supporting logistics supply chain.

Fabian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Space Operations from the United States Air Force Academy as well as Masters degrees in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude, and Public Administration from the University of Oklahoma.  He has been published in the Proceedings of the Naval Institute and Astropolitics: The International Journal of Space Politics & Policy.