Overview
Al Tadros is Chief Technology Officer at Redwire Space, a role he has held since May 2022. He is based in Los Altos. He joined Redwire Space in August 2020 as Chief Growth Officer and EVP Space Infrastructure.
Before that he spent more than three years at Maxar Technologies as VP, Space Infrastructure and Civil Space, from January 2017 to August 2020. He worked at Space Systems/Loral from 1991 to January 2017, first as a Dynamics and Controls Engineer, then from 1999 as a Satellite Systems Engineer and Payload Manager, and from 2007 as Vice President, Civil and DoD Business. He began his career at Ford Aerospace / Space Systems Division, where he was a Robotics Dynamics and Controls Engineer from 1990 to 1991.
Tadros studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, taking a BS in AeroAstro between 1984 and 1988 and an MS in Mechanical Engineering between 1988 and 1990. In 1987 he attended the inaugural year of the International Space University, studying space systems.
Career history
In the news
- Engineering - Art #Space4Humanity
- Always a treat to be back at MIT talking Tech! Demystifying In-Space Manufacturing #SpacePharma #Space4Humanity https://luma.com/o3jmbntt
- Tough Tech = Epic Engineering! Catch my panel Tuesday - Boston #Space4Humanity https://luma.com/o3jmbntt
- Powering #Space4Humanity
- What a week at #IAC2026 in Antalya, Türkiye 🌍 Redwire leaders joined panels on the future of the global space economy. Mike Gold, President of Redwire Space, spoke on sovereign capability, microgravity research, planetary defense, and global cooperation. Al Tadros, Chief Technology Officer, Redwire Space, joined "Computing in Orbit: What Will It Take to Build this Next Infrastructure Layer?" to discuss operating compute at scale in space. Thank you to everyone who connected with the Redwire team this week!
- In orbit computing…. Let’s Go!!
- Space for Humanity
- Robotics advancing human exploration.
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