Jim Cantrell

Jim Cantrell is the CEO & Co-Founder of Phantom Space, a company democratizing access to space by building mass-manufactured rockets, satellites, and space propulsion systems.

Prior to Phantom, Jim was a founding team member and Vice President of Business at SpaceX, with internet pioneer Elon Musk, where he helped develop technical concepts, markets, and overall corporate and product development strategy. His career also includes assignments at the French Space Agency CNES, the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, and includes the founding of several entrepreneurial space startups and teams, such as Moon Express, StratSpace, and Vintage Exotics Competition Engineering. StratSpace worked on nearly 50 successful space missions and satellite programs, and as acquired by Phantom.

Jim received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State University, he also worked as a research engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Here, he worked on Mars exploration technologies, including several Mars rover missions.