Pablo Sarasa Delgado

Payload Manager in the Telecom and Integrated Applications Directorate in ESA/ESTEC 

After 6 years in Thales Alenia Space (TAS-France) as AIT and antenna engineer, Pablo joined ESA/ESTEC in 2006. Since then, he has provided technical support to several ESA missions, first as RF & antenna expert, then as payload engineer and from 2014 as payload manager of EDRS-A and EDRS-C. Pablo is now managing industry contracts related to next generation optical communications that will help European industry to maintain its leadership in the field.

Pablo has 3 master degrees: in Telecommunication eng. (UPC - Barcelona), in Microwaves and Optical systems engineering (ENST - Brest) and in Space Studies (ISU - Strasburg). He is the inventor of two world patents. TAS awarded him a prize in 2005 for his contribution to space antenna feeds, he received the best innovative paper award in 2010 at ESA Antenna Workshop and the 2015 ESA Team excellence Award for coordinating the Telecom Payload Training at ESA.