Moeller, Robert C.

Robert C. Moeller has over 25 years of experience in technical team leadership, systems engineering, space mission & system architecting, flight hardware development & testing, and technology R&D. He is currently the Blue Horizon Chief Architect in Blue Origin’s Space Systems Development organization. Prior to this, he was the Chief Engineer for the Project Systems Engineering and Formulation Section at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Past roles at JPL spanned multiple flight programs (including Product Delivery Manager and Sampling Science Systems Engineer on the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and Launch/Cruise Phase Lead on the InSight Mars lander) and leadership roles across advanced concepts formulation (lunar, planetary, Earth, and astrophysics), implementation, and operations. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) with emphasis in high-power electric propulsion research, and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC).