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Starport Space

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

Our work centers on three areas: readiness audits, acceptance documentation support, and test campaign management. 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, unclear ownership, coordination gaps, and test runs that produce data but not a clean closeout package. We make sure things are organized, documented, and ready for review.

Thomas Yoo

Founder

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

tjyoo@starportspace.com

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 readiness across multiple vehicle builds. His work spanned welding, mechanical fitting, system installs, 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. 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 also brings embedded systems development and CAD proficiency (Siemens NX), extending Starport Space's capability across both the mechanical and data-systems dimensions of hardware programs.

Background

→Integration Test Technician IV — SpaceX Starship Program
→SpaceX Authorized Overseer (AO) Training — Starship Program
→Embedded Systems Development

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