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Starport Space

Starport Space is a payload readiness and integration support company. We work alongside space hardware teams preparing for critical milestones—test campaigns, acceptance reviews, partner handoffs, and submission events.

Our work centers on four areas: readiness audits, acceptance documentation support, test campaign management, and integration coordination. For teams with strong engineering talent that need a dedicated partner for evidence packaging, lab coordination, and milestone execution—we fill that role.

We focus on the problems that quietly slow hardware programs down: incomplete evidence packets, redundant or incomplete testing, and gaps in coordination with stakeholders. We make sure things are organized, documented, and ready for submission.

Thomas Yoo

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Thomas founded Starport Space to help space hardware teams navigate one of the most demanding parts of program execution: getting from technical effort to delivery. His focus is on readiness planning, evidence organization, and stakeholder coordination—helping customers move through qualification and acceptance activities with more structure and less wasted motion.

He brings an operator's perspective to schedule risk, documentation discipline, and partner-facing execution. At Starport Space, Thomas leads customer engagements, scoping, readiness analysis, and overall program support.

His guiding principle: in space hardware, good work is not enough unless it is organized, can be reviewed, and delivered in a form that other stakeholders can act on.

Background

→Senior Manager — Chadol
→B.S. Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania '21

Roberto Vela III

Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer

Roberto comes from the Starship program at SpaceX, where he served as an Integration Test Technician IV with direct responsibility for flight hardware and systems readiness across multiple vehicle builds. His work spanned, mechanical operations, welding operations, critical systems integration, and end-to-end test checkouts—hands-on at every stage from initial fit-up through verified closeout.

His focus was quality and execution: conducting QA checks, serving as an independent second-eye witness on critical operations, documenting and resolving issue tickets, and contributing to critical path milestones including engine installs and rework campaigns under very tight time constraints. He operated within SpaceX's rigorous documentation standards and tradecraft requirements—the same discipline that shapes how Starport Space structures acceptance readiness support for every client.

Roberto drives the mechatronics and test instrumentation. His deep proficiency in embedded systems, CAD, and control architecture gives Starport Space complete oversight over both the physical and data-system requirements of complex hardware programs.

Background

→Integration Test Technician IV — SpaceX Starship Program
→SpaceX Authorized Overseer (AO) Training — Starship Program
→Vehicle Manufacturing & Environmental Testing — Stoke Space
→Embedded Systems Development

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