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Airbus SE and Safran have proposed to the Board of Directors of ArianeGroup Andre-Hubert Roussel, 53, currently Head of Operations at Airbus Defence and Space, to succeed Alain Charmeau, 62, as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ArianeGroup, effective 1 January 2019.

On 12 September, in an extraordinary general meeting held in the form of voting by correspondence, shareholders of RSC Energia elected Sergey Yurievich Romanov as the General Director of the Corporation.

Globalstar announced the promotions of Dave Kagan to the position of CEO and Jay Monroe to Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors.

At the meeting of the Board of Directors of RSC Energia held in the form of absent voting, a decision was taken to suspend the General Director of RSC Energia, Vladimir Solntsev from 4 August 2018 due to the termination an employment contract with him by agreement of the parties.

Dmitry Paison, the director of Russia’s Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIIMash), which is a rocket and spacecraft scientific centre at Roskosmos, has filed an application for dismissal, Roskosmos’ press service head Vladimir Ustimenko was quoted as saying.

Northrop Grumman chairman and chief executive officer Wes Bush announced that he will step down from the position of chief executive officer effective 1 January 2019. He will remain chairman through July 2019.

Vladimir Solntsev, the head of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (RSC Energia) is to step down on 3 August, corporation officials were quoted as saying.

Russian President Vladimir Putin asked Dmitri Rogozin to head State Corporation Roskosmos. Mr. Rogozin is going to replace Igor Komarov in this position.