What We Do

Townsend Aerospace Consulting, LLC, a Woman Owned Small Business established in 2009, provides expert advice to the aerospace industry such that their clients can be more successful in their current and future endeavors in space. To accomplish this successfully, the company leverages the approximately 80 years of combined experience in the aerospace industry, of the two principals.

Who We Are

WILLIAM F. TOWNSEND (BILL) brings almost 45 years of experience in the Aerospace Industry to Townsend Aerospace Consulting, LLC. His most recent position was with the Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, in Boulder, CO, from 2004-2008. Bill's concluding assignment at Ball was as the Vice President, Exploration Systems, where he led the company's pursuit of the Instrument Unit contract for NASA's Ares I launch vehicle, from the new Ball office that he established in Huntsville, AL in 2007. Prior to this appointment, Bill served as Vice President and General Manager of the Civil Space Systems strategic business unit, where he was responsible for all of Ball's civilian space endeavors, including such diverse activities as the Deep Impact mission, the HIRISE camera that flew on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the James Webb Space Telescope mirror and associated electronics, the GPM microwave imager, the Kepler planet finding mission, and two instruments, the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC 3), both which were installed in the Hubble Space telescope during the May 2009 Hubble Shuttle Servicing mission.

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CAROLYN W. TOWNSEND has worked in the aerospace industry for almost 35 years, and brings a unique set of skills and experience to Townsend Aerospace Consulting, LLC. After a multi-faceted career with NASA, she most recently had an opportunity to bring her accumulated skills to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation in Boulder, Colorado, in 2007, as they established a new office in Huntsville, Alabama.

While in Huntsville, Alabama, Carolyn served as Ball Aerospace's Community Liaison. Ball Aerospace was new to the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center as well as the Huntsville business community, so it was imperative that the company become a known quantity immediately, and become completely integrated throughout the community. Carolyn made the company an important and contributing entity in an aerospace oriented city of 300,000 people in a short period of just 6 months. Clear evidence was, as the final down select of the Ares 1 launch vehicle Instrument Unit Avionics procurement from five companies to two was announced, that Ball was referred to as "a local company" by the Huntsville Times.

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