Biography

Mrs. Richard got her Master’s degree in 1996 from the California Institute of Technology (USA) in Mechanical Engineering. She worked at the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1994 till 2005, early on for the Mars Program, and then for the Advanced Propulsion Technology Group. She becomes a senior engineer in 2001 when she moves to JPL’s Mission Architecture Group. In 2005, she was employed by the Space Center EPFL in Switzerland to manage the SwissCube satellite project, and later on to manage the “Clean-mE” research and technology development program on Active Debris Removal. Since January 2012, she is the Project Manager of the CleanSpace One mission.