Masataka Maita

Background

Maita, Masataka Son of Masayoshi and Nobuko Maita.

Education

Master of Science, Stanford University, 1972. Doctor of Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, 1976.

Career

Research official National Aerospace Laboratory Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, 1976—1981, senior research scientist, 1981—1983, deputy director space policy division Research and Development Bureau Science and Technology Agency, 1985—1986. Visiting fellow Stanford University, 1983—1984. Head spaceplane program National Aerospace Laboratory, Tokyo, 1989—2001, director Office Strategic Planning and Management, 2001—2003.

Advisor to the president Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 2003—2005. Organizer Spaceplane and Hypersonic Technology workshop. Executive fellow Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 2005—2009.

Visiting professor Muroran Institute of Technology, Hokkaido, Japan, since 2006. Advisory Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, since 2009.

Achievements

• Achievements include patents for USB powered-lift device for STOL aircraft. Patents for airbreather-rocket combined cycle propulsion. Design of Japanese SSTO spaceplane.
  
  Research in airbreathing launcher and hypersonic system.

Membership

Chairman advisory committee Meisei University, Tokyo, 2001—2005. Fellow: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (associate). Member: Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science, International Aerospace Congress (member international committee since 1996).

Connections

Married Yoko Yuzuhara. Children: Kumiko, Gaku.

Father:

Masayoshi Maita

Mother:

Nobuko Maita

Spouse:

Yoko Yuzuhara

child:

Kumiko Maita

child:

Gaku Maita