Glenn Rakow is the Development Lead for SpaceWire, a high-speed communications protocol for spaceflight electronics originally developed in 1999 by the Euro - pean Space Agency (ESA). Under Rakow’s leadership, the SpaceWire standard was developed into a network of nodes and routers interconnected through bidirectional, highspeed serial links, making the system more modular, flexible, and reusable. In 2004, Rakow received Goddard’s James Kerley Award for his contributions to technology transfer.