Hailing from Sabah, Marco Marsh joined as a National Point of Contact for Malaysia at the Space Generation Advisory Council in 2020 as a scholar student completing his Master of Space Studies at the International Space University (ISU) in Strasbourg. Previously, Marco graduated from the University of Bristol, holding an M.Eng. in Electrical and Electronics and an M.Sc. in Integrated Aerospace Systems Design. Following university, he held professional roles with the Customer Solutions Engineering team at Intelsat and as a Spacecraft Controller for the Cluster II, Rosetta, and Mars Express missions at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany. He is about to take the next step in his career by working with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA).

Marco enjoyed his recent education at ISU, cultivating enduring interest in several topics, including analogs, space debris, spaceflight operations, and astronaut training. He served as a project coordinator for “Team ChipSat” – a diverse team of 21 members from 17 different nationalities tasked with uncovering the design and value of a sub-10-gram satellite to both ISU and the space industry. Team ChipSat submitted multiple abstracts to the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), many of which were accepted. While at ISU, Marco had additional involvement in a trip to the Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City in Moscow, was a member of the organizing committee for the ISU Alumni Conference 2020, and engaged with visiting French high school students to ISU’s campus.