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Advisory Board Profiles

Joe Maly

Mr. Maly retired from Moog Space and Defense in 2023 after 35 years. He is a subject matter expert in vibration suppression and small satellite launch infrastructure, and led spaceflight hardware programs in both disciplines. In 1987 he joined CSA Engineering (acquired by Moog in 2008), and implemented CSA vibration mitigation and flight hardware solutions for a wide range of customer organizations. His first spaceflight hardware program in 1994 resolved a launch vibration problem for Los Alamos National Lab’s FORTE satellite. Starting in 1999 Mr. Maly managed the development of solar array dampers for the Hubble Space Telescope, installed by Shuttle astronauts in March 2002. He was the Principal Investigator for the development of ESPA, the EELV Secondary Payload Adapter, which debuted on the first Air Force EELV launch in 2007 and became a standard for small satellite space access. For NASA’s Constellation Program in 2009, Joe Maly led a team of Moog CSA engineers to implement vibration cancellation for the Ares I first stage as part of the Thrust Oscillation Mitigation effort. In 2016-2018 Mr. Maly was Program Manager for ESPA and ESPA Grande Qualification test programs at AFRL and authored Moog’s ESPA User’s Guide for launch of rideshare payloads. Joe Maly has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MS in Applied Mechanics from Stanford.