Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice Retires After Three Years of Leadership

The departure comes as the company faces delays in launching its Dream Chaser spaceplane and navigates plans for a potential IPO in 2025.

Tom Vice retired as Sierra Space CEO on December 31, 2024, after serving in the role since mid-2021.
The company confirmed Vice's departure but did not provide specific reasons or prior indications of his retirement.
Sierra Space has faced significant delays in launching its Dream Chaser spaceplane, now targeting a first mission no earlier than May 2025.
During Vice's tenure, Sierra Space secured a $740 million Pentagon contract for missile-tracking satellites and continued developing inflatable space station modules.
Fatih Ozmen, chairman of Sierra Space and CEO of parent company Sierra Nevada Corporation, will act as interim CEO while the company searches for a permanent replacement.