Adrian Hooke serves dual roles within the CCSDS, both as Chairman of the CCSDS Engineering Steering Group (CESG) and as Manager of Networking Architecture, Technology and Standards in the Space Communications and Navigation office at NASA Headquarters, where he currently is on a special assignment.

From 1966-1969 Adrian worked in US industry as a member of the Kennedy Space Center launch team for the Apollo 9, 10, 11 and 12 Lunar Modules. Joining JPL in 1969, he was a member of the flight control teams for the Mariner 9 and 10 missions to Mars, Venus and Mercury. After working on the Voyager onboard data system and leading the design of the SEASAT end-to-end data system, he became a staff member of the European Space Agency in 1976 to work on the flight operations architecture for the Shuttle-SpaceLab program. Rejoining JPL in 1977, he focused on the development of new technology in the area of standardized space data communications protocols.  He is one of the founders of the CCSDS and has led the development of international standards for Packet Telemetry, Packet Telecommand, Advanced Orbiting Systems and the “SCPS” extension of the terrestrial Internet protocol suite into space. He also chairs the US Technical Advisory Group to ISO TC20/SC13, “Space Data and Information Transfer Systems”.