[[Home|🏠]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> [[People]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> Mike Whalen **Name:** Mike Whalen **Role:** Vice President - Separation Systems **Shares Owned:** **Joined:** 2021-11-15 **Linkedin**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-whalen-230b24b/ ![[Pasted image 20241127003349.png|300]] >[!summary] Michael Whalen leads our Maryland-based team in delivering flight proven separation systems and deployment mechanisms. He led [[Planetary Systems Corporation (PSC)]] for 15 years before it was acquired by Rocket Lab in 2021. Mr. Whalen took PSC from a 5-person company to a leader in on-orbit deployment solutions for most of the world's launch vehicles with more than 200 separations on-orbit and a 100% success rate. > Mr. Whalen has more than 28 years of national security and aerospace experience in engineering and management. Prior to PSC, he was a program manger with Intel Corporation responsible for server-based encryption and decryption hardware development. > Mr. Whalen previously served as a US Naval Aviator accruing more than 500 combat flight-hours and holds a BS in Materials Engineering from Drexel University. [Source](https://www.rocketlabusa.com/about/team/) ## 💼 SEC Filings %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ``` table Filing_Type as "Filing Type", Filing_Date as "Date" from "Filings" where Insider = [[Mike Whalen]] sort Filing_Date desc ``` %% | File | Filing Type | Date | | ---- | ----------- | ---- | %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %% ## 📰 News %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ``` table title as "Title", published as "Published" from "News" where contains(insider, [[Mike Whalen]]) sort published desc ``` %% | File | Title | Published | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- | | [[News/Rocket Lab Closes Acquisition Of Space Hardware Company Planetary Systems Corporation.md\|Rocket Lab Closes Acquisition Of Space Hardware Company Planetary Systems Corporation]] | Rocket Lab Closes Acquisition Of Space Hardware Company Planetary Systems Corporation | December 01, 2021 | %%DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %% ## Former Organizations - [[Planetary Systems Corporation (PSC)]]