Relativity Space, from Long Beach, California, is probably one the best-known launch startups in the world. They had a partially successful launch of their Terran One rocket last year, are now working towards the launch of the much larger Terran R, have 1200 employees and raised over $1bn in funding. My guest is their President & CFO Mo Shahzad and we talk about all things Relativity but also a little about the launch market in general. Enjoy!

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0:00 Intro 2:30 Relativity Space summary 5:13 Mo's career incl. switching to the space sector 7:00 Acting as a "translator" 13:00 Discussing difficulties with clients 17:38 Hiring 22:00 Steps on the way to Mars 28:32 Production and flight cadence 31:18 Pricing 34:00 Relativity in the broader launch market 38:31 Rideshare 40:50 Ancillary products 43:30 Vision 45:48 Interesting things in commercial space 49:00 Sci-Fi

This week we are talking about KickSky, the first incubator for Indian space startups, which is having the demo day of its first cohort on 8-May. I am talking to Ankit Anand, Partner of Riceberg Ventures and a co-founder of KickSky. We talk about why the timing is right for an Indian space incubator, what the incubation program looks like, and many other things. For full disclosure, E2MC, the space venture fund where I am partner, is also part of KickSky. If you have any interest in Indian space, don’t miss this episode! 

If you are:

- an Indian startup interested in applying to KickSky - interested in becoming a mentor at KickSky - interested in joining KickSky's investor network please go to https://www.kicksky.space

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0:00 Intro 2:19 Ankit's background and the Indian space ecosystem 13:34 Space Sector in India - Government & commercial 17:34 Kicksky's structure and program 26:22 Mentoring 31:16 Demo-day and practical examples 37:12 Experience of being an incubator 40:01 Future plans 43:08 Apply to Kicksky 43:37 Sci-fi

In-space manufacturing is what we are discussing in this episode, and we have a really cool and qualified guest: Jessica Frick is a researcher at Stanford’s XLab, the extreme environment microsystems lab. They recently held a workshop on semiconductor manufacturing in microgravity, just published a white paper about it (linked below), and are now setting up an institute focused on manufacturing advanced materials in microgravity. Enjoy!

The Institute for In-Space Manufacturing of Advanced Materials

https://rb.gy/b4661j

White paper: Semiconductor Manufacturing in Low-Earth Orbit for Terrestrial Use

https://osf.io/preprints/osf/d6ar4

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Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:20 Intro to XLab & Jessica 4:37 Jessica's origin story & motivation 8:54 Semiconductor manufacturing primer 14:15 In-space manufacturing for Earth 15:58 Which part of semi manufacturing makes sense to do in space 17:30 Advantages of microgravity  18:50 Could it be done on Earth? 20:25 Advantages of microgravity (cont'd) 26:20 Semiconductor materials besides silicon 28:50 Why larger crystals are better 35:45 Why now? 38:45 Safety & astronaut intervention 40:30 Microgravity platforms besides the ISS 41:40 Importance of subject matter expertise 45:00 Origin of the idea for the new institute 54:55 Current ISS equipment 55:55 The Institute for In-Space Manufacturing of Advanced Materials 1:02:00 How to get involved 1:04:25 Sci-fi

Satellite IoT, or internet of things – we have another episode on this topic. Which devices or machines can we connect via satellite communications, how and why? Our guest is Omar Qaise, the founder & CEO of Luxembourg-based OQ Technology, a prominent satellite IoT startup that has already several satellites in orbit. Enjoy!

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Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:19 Elevator Pitch 3:33 Devices outside of coverage that would benefit 6:33 How are people monitoring such devices right now? 8:01 Cost 10:55 Working with off the shelf hardware 12:33 Regulations 15:27 Go to market 18:48 Energy specific use cases 19:56 Go to market: push vs. pull 21:14 Coverage and constellation size 22:13 Lower latency use cases 23:57 Types of satellite 24:55 Direct to device vs direct to mobile 26:12 Receivers 28:20 Wearables 30:04 Cybersecurity 32:26 Most exciting future use cases 36:10 Future of the satellite IoT market 42:03 Origin story 44:08 Vision for the OQ 45:10 The Space Ecosystem in Luxemburg 47:10 Saudi Arabia 49:15 What else is exciting in the space sector? 51:12 Sci-Fi

Space & bio – we finally have the 2nd episode in our subseries on this topic. Dorit Donoviel is the Director of the Translational Research Institute for Space Health. TRISH is an institute that is cooperating with NASA and conducting a fascinating range of research regarding human health in space. Our discussion touches on many topics, ranging from challenges to human physiology in microgravity all the way to the question of whether we can use gene editing to adapt ourselves to the space environment. Enjoy!

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Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:35 TRISH 3:50 Staying healthy in space 7:36 Health concerns in microgravity 12:07 Eye and brain issues 13:40 Artificial gravity 15:40 Licensing 18:46 Moon & Mars 22:50 Medical equipment and treatment in space 27:00 Surgery 29:22 Positive effects in space 33:03 Longevity in space 34:50 Gene editing 39:28 Reproduction in space 43:33 Research projects if more funding was available 45:23 Food production 47:31 Astronaut health monitoring 50:00 Beyond R&D 53:55 Organ-on-chip models 56:33 How one can get involved in TRISH 1:00:17 Sci-fi

Light sails – really thin sails that are propelled by photons flying around in space – have been proposed as an alternative propulsion method to travel the cosmos for a long time. Now, there is a startup company in France working to commercialize them. Their co-founder & CEO, Andrew Nutter, is our guest this week. Enjoy!

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0:00 Intro 2:01 Elevator pitch 2:49 Origin story 4:22 History of light sails 8:59 Planetary Society mission 11:12 Folding the sail 14:20 Hazards in space 16:04 Further specs of Gama's sail 17:56 Velocity and Acceleration Specs 22:23 Oumuamua 24:01 Use cases 30:16 Dragsail application 34:41 GTM & missions 37:51 Deep space demonstration 39:25 Timeline & long term vision for the company 42:24 Business Model 45:35 What else is interesting in space? 47:30 Sci-Fi

The ground segment for satellites is obviously an important part of the space ecosystem. Giovanni Pandolfi is a co-founder of LeafSpace, one of the prominent startups in this field.  https://leaf.space/

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Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:05 Elevator Pitch 3:09 Leafspace's origin story 6:04 Finding a business opportunity in the space sector 8:22 Biggest challenges starting straight out of university 11:30 First commercial push 12:51 Initial approach 16:10 Not being held back by the legacy way of doing things 17:30 Antenna building vs. buying 19:00 Product & customer experience 22:01 Kinds of applications that Leaf Space can support 25:05 AWS 30:13 Ten-year vision for Leaf Space 32:45 Vision for the broader ground segment sector 37:08 Frequency bands 40:03 What else in space is interesting? 41:30 Sci-Fi

India's space sector is really blasting off (pun intended!). Among other things, the country just became only the fourth one to soft land on the Moon. So it's only fitting that we'll have more Indian space companies and people as guests. Our first one is Tushar Jadhav, founder and CEO of Manastu Space, a propulsion startup from Mumbai that recently announced a $3MM financing round (for full disclosure, E2MC, the space VC fund where Raphael is a partner, is an investor in that round). Please enjoy hearing about Manastu and space in India!

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro 3:14 Elevator pitch 3:55 Green satellite propultion 9:20 Why was hydrazine originally chosen? 11:15  The current system 15:09 Hydrogen peroxide 18:31 Chemical propulsion vs electrical propulsion  23:01 Manastu's product & business model 25:45 In-orbit demonstration 26:27 Main customer group 27:26 Export control 28:23 Scaling up & adding on services 30:52 Vision for the company 31:45 Origin story 35:38 Indian Space Ecosystem 44:16 What's next? 46:15 Sci-fi

 

My guest this week is Loren Grush. You may know her already as a space journalist, currently at Bloomberg and previously at The Verge. She also just published a book: “The Six” is telling the story of America’s first women astronauts - and that is what we’re talking about in this episode. Enjoy!

Loren's book "The Six": https://www.simonandschuster.biz/books/The-Six/Loren-Grush/9781982172800

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Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:00 Loren's background 2:53 Being a NASA kid 6:24 Support from the community 7:50 Loren's new book 9:02 Why this topic? 10:45 Challenges of women in the space sector 16:00 The Mercury 13 18:00 Surprising findings in research for the book 19:17 Competitiveness among The Six 22:20 A favorite one? 23:50 Legacy of The Six 25:21 Normalizing women in space 29:17 Female Astronauts 32:44 International Female Astronauts 34:10 Future books 36:17 How can we improve the gender imbalance in the space sector? 40:23 Final message for women looking to join the space sector

Our guest this week is building a lunar rover. Jaret Matthews is the CEO & Founder of Astrolab, based in Hawthorne, CA. He was previously at SpaceX and also at JPL, where he worked on Mars rovers. Come join us to hear all about planetary rovers!  https://astrolab.space/

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0:00 Intro 2:21 Elevator Pitch 3:11 "Last Mile" on the Moon 5:27 Flex rover in the context of other rovers 9:10 Payloads 11:30 Scaling challenges 13:46 Autonomy 15:33 "Off-road" capability 19:23 Vehicle specs 22:23 Vehicle lifetime and surviving on the Moon 29:34 Spare parts 33:06 Infrastructure 34:22 Main use cases 38:27 Vision for mobility landscape on the Moon 41:37 The motivation behind Astrolab 46:46 What else is interesting in the space sector 48:15 What could be the "first killer app" for the Moon? 50:07 Sci-Fi

Space Traffic Management continues to be a hot topic as we keep on hearing about companies like SpaceX having to execute large numbers of collision avoidance maneuvers.  Portugal-based Neuraspace is focused on this and has raised a significant amount of money already to build their AI-based platform. COO Chiara Manfletti is our guest this week. Enjoy!

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0:00 Intro 2:09 Elevator pitch 3:00 Defining SSA, SDA, STM, etc. 5:43 How much we actually know 10:06 Data availability and gaps 12:28 Customers and market adoption 15:36 How concerned should satellite operators be? 17:22 Why aren't we seeing collisions all the time? 21:56 Active debris removal and the "tragedy of commons" in space 24:53 Business model 27:00 Right of way 32:49 Regulation 34:45 Incentives and insurance 39:55 Customers 40:17 Vision for Neuraspace 41:08 Use of funds 42:42 The Portuguese space ecosystem 44:46 How Chiara got involved with Neuraspace 47:47 What else is interesting in space? 49:18 Sci Fi

Alcohol in Space 🍸 – that is actually the title of an existing book, written by Chris Carberry, who is also the CEO of Explore Mars. Chris is our guest this week and we’re talking about everything alcohol in space – from the history of liquor consumption in space, over its effects in microgravity, all the way to what kind of drinks we may produce in space in the future. Cheers & enjoy!

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Alcohol in Space - the book: https://www.amazon.com/Alcohol-Space-Past-Present-Future/dp/147667924X

Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:22 Chris background 3:49 The history of alcohol in Space 8:47 Taste in space 11:57 Alcohol on private missions like Ax-3 13:09 Current rules 14:04 Religious use 14:53 Reasons for current prohibition 17:04 Physiological impact of alcohol in space 18:25 Fully private missions 20:17 Upcoming space stations 22:20 Examples of liquor companies interested in space 25:30 Space Cargo Unlimited and its wine on the ISS 28:12 Producing alcohol in space 32:32 Potential future for alcohol in space 36:15 Sub-Orbital spaceflights 38:09 Other alcohol-related space business opportunities 40:38 Chris's favorite drink 41:03 Drinks that are connected to places in space 42:27 Sci-Fi and alcohol in space

Johannes Torpe is a well-known Danish designer who, among many other things, was the Creative Director at Bang & Olufsen, and once owned a space-themed night club called NASA. He is passionate about what he calls “domesticating space” – bringing space closer to people at large, beyond the existing space community. We met at Spacecom in Orlando earlier this year and finally had a chance to schedule a podcast episode to talk about all this. Enjoy!

https://www.johannestorpe.com/

Golden space suit event: https://www.designindaba.com/videos/conference-talks/danish-designer-johannes-torpe-power-design-create-universes

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0:00 Intro 2:36 Johannes's background 6:05 Golden space suit entry 11:15 Connecting people to the Space Renaissance 18:42 Domesticating Space 21:50 The Space Mountain Case and Space "Retroism" 27:22 Potential ways of inspiring people 31:06 Hotels & Resorts 34:15 "Edutainment" 37:07 NASA Nightclub 42:36 Space & the arts 47:57 Current space-related projects 53:49 Sci-fi

Do you want to send your DNA to space - to orbit, or to the Moon? You can already do that: LifeShip is a California-based startup offering that service. They have already sold thousands of their kits. Hear about their story from founder Ben Haldeman, who was also an early employee at Planet, the well-known Eartly observation company. Enjoy!

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0:00 Intro 2:12 Elevator Pitch 3:33 Origin story 5:51 From inspiration to product 7:24 The product 8:50 First Space missions 10:18 Customer motivation 14:00 Go to market 15:42 Customer demographics 17:25 What the customer gets 18:42 Future missions 21:49 What if Aliens find it? 23:23 Bureaucracy and restrictions 24:46 How to protect DNA in space 26:08 Vision 29:31 Potential future products 31:59 Funding 33:21 B2B element 35:50 What else is interesting in space? 37:58 Sci-Fi

Big satellites, REALLY big satellites – for the age of Starship. That is what our guest company this week is working on – K2 Space from Long Beach, CA - and they just raised an $8.5MM seed round. I talk to their co-founder Karan Kunjur about their satellite platform, its potential use cases, and much more. Enjoy!

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:08 Elevator pitch

2:48 K2's satellite platforms

5:05 Testing large satellites

6:14 Tech challenges 

8:35 Operational orbit

10:10 Space debris

12:00 Origin story of K2

14:56 Use cases

18:19 Fitting in with emerging trends

22:41 Proving your use cases and building the market

24:49 Vertical integration

27:03 Propulsion

29:26 Business model

30:51 Timeline

32:32 Hosting

34:00 Vision

37:05 Future of the satellite industry

39:25 Advice for joining the space sector

41:25 What else is interesting in the space sector?

43:04 Sci-Fi

 

Sex in Space – I feel like I don’t need to say anything else about this episode. But jokes aside – besides sexual health being an important issue on long duration space missions in general, one important topic is the question of reproduction in space. We touch upon these topics and more in my conversation with Simon Dubé, a post-doctoral researcher at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University on the topic of space sexology. Enjoy! Relevant article: 

"Sexual Health in Space: a 5-year Scoping Review" -https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-023-00368-9 "Technology-Based Sexualities"-

 

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Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:23 Simon's background 3:36 Erotic interactions in space 6:28 Articles about space sexology 7:46 Sex in space? 11:26 Artificial suppression in astronauts 13:14 Specific lines of research 19:25 Research methodology 25:06 Similar situations on Earth 31:58 Dream research project 36:03 Intimacy briefing for space explorers 39:11 The "mechanics" 44:03 Reproduction in space 51:22 Work to be done 52:00 Sci-Fi

We finally have a space startup from Asia (excl. Middle East) on the podcast. Many of you probably did not know that there is a late-stage space startup in Thailand. Mu Space is a Series C stage company manufacturing smallsats and their components. I caught up with their founder & CEO James Yenbamroong in person at the Mu Space headquarter office when I passed through Bangkok this week. Enjoy!

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Timestamps: 

0:00 Intro 2:44 Elevator pitch 3:09 Origin story 5:54 Thai space ecosystem 8:15 Supply chain and doing things from scratch 9:39 Vertical integration 11:42 Mu Space's satellite platforms 13:04 Use cases 14:40 Smallsats vs. cubesats 17:00 Power 18:45 More use cases 21:18 On-board computing 24:06 First missions 27:10 Launch companies in Asia 31:00 Regulatory restrictions 33:34 Funding 34:55 Satellite production and volume manufacturing 39:08 Time from order to shipping 42:00 Customers 44:23 The Thai Food Space Mission  48:46 Mu Space's battery tech 50:16 Trends in satellite manufacturing and lay of the land 56:27 On-board propulsion systems 58:58 Space-as-a-service 01:01:05 Vision for Mu Space 01:04:33 If James wasn't doing Mu Space, what would he do in space? 01:06:25 Sci-Fi

Impulse Space is a new startup focused on space logistics, including last-mile payload delivery. The company has a first mission scheduled for fall this year, and also announced a private Mission to Mars jointly with Relativity last year. We touch upon all of this and a lot more in my conversation with their COO Barry Matsumori. Enjoy!

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0:00 Intro 2:05 Elevator Pitch 2:34 Mission architecture 3:45 The first mission 5:01 Vehicle architecture/strategy 8:05 Vision for In-space services 13:37 Economic viability of small&medium launchers 16:18 View of the land on OTV companies 17:52 Primary users and use cases 20:07 Revenue model 20:53 The Mars mission 23:02 Financing and pricing 26:14 Tech needed to go to Mars 28:51 Propulsion system and vehicle details 33:40 Timeframe and production capacity 36:03 Starship 38:27 Vast space station deal 40:54 Vision for the space sector 42:30 Other areas that Barry is excited about 43:52 Impulse Space in 10 years 44:47 SpaceX Heritage 47:19 Medium-term futuristic possibilities 48:27 Sci-Fi

Greg Autry has worn many leadership hats in the space sector. He is currently the Clinical Professor & Director of the Space Leadership, Policy and Business Program at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He was a presidential nominee (as CFO) at NASA and continues to hold roles at the agency. He was also chair of the FAA’s COMSTAC Safety Working Group. Our conversation ranges from space entrepreneurship over space safety to geopolitics in space. I think you’ll really enjoy this one. I did!

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:22 Greg's bio

6:09 Is the Space Sector an appropriate place for entrepreneurs

8:34 Space Master program at Thunderbird

11:02 What does a NASA CFO do?

13:15 More on Thunderbird

22:09 NASA InSPA

26:50 In-space manufacturing

31:35 FAA COMSTAC

35:10 Commercial space flight participant regulation

39:18 Space traffic management

44:38 "Death by China"

48:29 Astropolitics

50:27 Quickfire questions on the space sector

59:23 A message for young people

1:01:49 Sci-Fi

Establishing a human presence in the Venusian atmosphere and setting up a venture studio to help get us there? You bet. Founder and Chairman of Humans2Venus, Guillermo Söhnlein, is our guest this week.

 

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

3:38 Elevator Pitch

4:43 Why Venus?

11:35 Staying in the Venusian atmosphere

15:45 "Grand Vision" argument

19:04 Technology stack

27:47 Establishing a sustainable human presence

32:43 Business opportunities and business model

37:33 What is a venture studio?

42:55 Does is work for the space sector?

46:58 Overall status of the project

49:00 Sci-Fi

Episode 100 will give you a review & preview of the Space Business Podcast, incl. favorite sci-fi of our guests!

 

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0:00 Intro

3:55 Stats

11:17 Quotes

14:03 Sci-Fi

16:18 The future of this podcast

18:35 Calls to action

Nuclear fusion propulsion. Do I have your attention? Probably ... after all, we need to get to places like Mars, and beyond, faster than on the current chemical rockets. There are now actually some startups working on nuclear fusion propulsion and one of them, Princeton Satellite Systems, are our guests this week. Enjoy! JUST OUT: Raphael's fully revised introductory book on the Space economy, "To Infinity" - https://a.co/d/6jIQ2LO

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro 2:07 Elevator pitch 3:34 Future of space propulsion 5:13 Current state of fusion 10:16 Magnetic fusion 13:24 The FRC 16:47 Power budget 18:46 Terrestrial power generation use case 22:23 The Moon 25:03 What is left to do on the tech side 29:47 Timeline 31:01 Safety 33:15 In-space propulsion 36:44 NASA's past nuclear projects 37:54 Timing for prototype in space 42:43 Biggest obstacles 45:56 Beyond the current fusion engine proposal

My guest this week is Jesse Klempner, a partner in McKinsey’s Washington DC office. McKinsey is focusing more on space recently and has published a number of interesting articles (see below for some examples). We discuss why McKinsey is paying more attention to space now and how corporates can and do work with space, among other topics. Enjoy!

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Example McKinsey space articles:

Space: The missing element of your strategy Space launch - are headed for a shortfall? The potential of microgravity: How companies across sectors can venture into space

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

2:45 Why McKinsey is focusing more on space now

5:15 Getting space & non-space companies to cooperate

9:35 Taking the friction out of space

14:07 Companies integrating space as an enabling technology

18:29 Space mining

22:17 Space-based solar power

23:33 Lunar business models

25:14 Talking about space with the biggest companies in the world

29:15 Successful case studies of corporates implementing space

31:05 Successfully implementing new tech in an organization

31:47 How corporates can inform themselves

34:01 Most exciting space use case

36:15 Favorite space business model if you were an entrepreneur

37:31 Sci Fi

PLD Space is a Spanish launch startup. Last October, they successfully completed a suborbital test flight of their Miura-1 rocket. We talk about that flight, their future plans on the way to orbital launch, the launch market at large, and many other things, with my guest, PLD’s CFO, José Manuel Rodríguez. Enjoy!

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro 2:20 Elevator Pitch 6:05 European access to space 9:17 Business Model 13:17 Specs 18:10 Rocket engines 19:20 Production capacity 20:54 Scaling up 23:41 Europe vs. other markets 25:50 Customers 28:50 Gaining trust with customers 33:27 User guide 35:40 Launch market 39:10 Sovereign launch 42:08 Spaceports 44:18 Orbits 47:00 Future milestones 49:45 Team 53:38 Other interesting space activities 55:30 Sci-Fi

Space Biotech - this is the first episode in a new sub-series of episodes just on this topic. Ken Savin is the Chief Scientific Officer of Redwire, the American space holding company. Before that, he worked at the U.S. National Lab and for a long time in the pharma industry. JUST OUT: Raphael's fully revised introductory book on the Space economy, "To Infinity" - https://a.co/d/6jIQ2LO

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0:00 Intro

2:27 Ken's Background

3:52 Use cases

6:59 Human tissue in space

10:00 Pre-clinical pharma testing and regenerative medicine

11:38 Crystal production in space

16:30 Mass production in space 

20:07 Awareness of space in the biotech industry

23:50 Bridging two different sectors

34:37 Starship

36:55 Producing at scale in microgravity

42:11 Use cases predictions

48:47 Disease models

54:34 Life sciences in Deep Space

58:05 Sci-Fi

Software for satellites. We are overdue to talk about it – it’s important and it could be a big business opportunity, for reasons you’ll hear about in this episode. My guest is Alvaro Alonso Ruiz, co-founder of the French startup Leanspace who raised a EUR6MM seed round last year. Enjoy!

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Timestamps

0:00 Elevator Pitch 

4:30 Satellite ground segment software

5:36 Origin story

10:27 Product cycle and use case

14:43 Third-party vs. in-house software

18:50 Fusing data 

20:45 ChatGPT

21:25 Data security

24:13 Target market and customers

28:57 New approaches to aerospace manufacturing

31:26 Leanspace approach

33:58 Vision

37:05 Biggest risks

39:25 Strasbourg

41:20 Sci-Fi

Space in Israel! My guest is Uri Oron, the Director General of the Israel Space Agency. We talk about various aspects of the Israeli space ecosystem, including what "infrastructure" is required to build it out successfully. Enjoy! Follow us:

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:38 Guest background

6:58 The Israeli deep tech legacy

8:59 ISA vs. other space agencies

14:44 Building the infrastructure for a space economy

18:19 Education and science

23:42 Supporting the startup ecosystem

27:15 Generating space awareness

33:19 Working alongside private initiatives

35:15 Space law

36:52 Interacting with the non-space side of the economy

39:23 A message to space enthusiasts

Asteroid mining – do I really need to say anything else to get you excited and curious about listening to this episode? My guest is Matt Gialich, the co-founder and CEO of AstroForge, an LA-based startup. Over a decade on from when the last asteroid mining companies started, AstroForge successfully raised a sizable seed round last year. Asteroid mining is back - hear all about it in this episode, enjoy!

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:17 Elevator pitch

4:44 Do we really have to mine in space?

7:02 Background and Origin Story

11:51 Previous asteroid mining companies

13:51 Hitching a ride to the Moon

15:14 Lowering mission costs

16:18 Spacecraft specs

17:38 Technology limitations

19:45 Mission objectives and timeline

21:18 Extraction tech

21:56 Approaching an asteroid

23:23 Power budget

25:40 Scaling up

26:49 Potential vs. current (on Earth) PGM cost

30:13 Business model

31:44 Regulations

33:24 Geopolitics

34:24 Funding

35:57 Vision

36:41 Biggest risks and challenges 

37:40 Current focus

39:00 Mining other things besides PGM

40:00 Sci-Fi

Nima Shahinian is a Norwegian industrial designer planning on going to space, and he has already started some of the training, which he will tell us about. He has now even put together a whole project and team in Norway that is working on taking a group of people to space, including several candidates with disabilities. Hear all of about it in this episode – and, since he is a designer, we also talk about space design! Enjoy!

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:43 How did Nima become an astronaut candidate?

4:51 Nima's Design work

6:20 Space design

8:16 Best space suits

10:00 Family's take

11:20 Forming a project team

12:54 Timeline and origin

18:01 First mission

20:50 Financing the Project

24:33 Iranian women in space

26:26 The Next Step project

30:15 Potential candidates

33:13 Plans for the mission

38:30 Nima's space training to date

41:48 Helping Project Next Step

44:03 Vision for the project

45:57 Sci-Fi

How about accessing space not with rockets, but with basically a big gun that shoots stuff into space? You may be surprised to hear that that is actually not a new idea. Our guests this week, the founders of a startup called Wave Motion are working on an updated version of it. Unsurprisingly, there is strong dual use element, too. We’ll talk about all that and more in the episode. Enjoy!

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  Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:24 Elevator Pitch 3:31 Rocket equation tyranny 5:35 Wave Motion launch tech 7:45 Historical space gun projects 12:21 "G-hardened"pPayloads 13:06 Architecture 14:46 Payload Capacity 16:35 Ground Infrastructure 18:45 Launch Cadence 21:12 Product Sequencing 27:10 Managing time and projects as a small team 29:36 Getting a Naval Research Contract 33:42 Geopolitics 35:00 Orbital launch costs 35:35 Roadmap 40:19 Origin of name 41:37 Other opportunities in space 42:45 Sci-Fi

This is our second conversation with a crew member of the dearMoon project. Just as a reminder, dearMoon will be a circumlunar Starship mission, to which Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku "MZ" Maezawa has invited 8 artists to join him. One of those lucky 8 is the photographer, filmmaker and whale swimming guide Karim Iliya. We talk about his expectations and objectives for the mission. Enjoy!

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:58 Hawaii, Iceland and the Moon

4:41 The most fascinating thing about the Moon

06:04 How Karim got interested in Space

8:22 The future of space exploration

11:52 Initial application for dearMoon

14:23 Taking photos in microgravity

18:42 Summary of Karim's work

22:26 Thoughts before going to Space

25:12 What would aliens photograph on Earth?

27:58 Absence of life in Space

30:00 The moment Karim found out he was selected

36:00 Research and preparations for the mission

37:54 Remaining key questions

40:37 Special items to bring along on the mission

 

Did you ever wonder what the experience of flying on Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard rocket is like? I certainly have. So I invited one of their recent crew members, Victor Hespanha from Brazil, onto the podcast. He takes us through the entire experience -before, during, and after the flight- in great detail. You get a good sense of what the experience is like, so don’t miss it! Please do note that English is not Victor’s first language and he is currently still learning it. He was incredibly kind to speak to us anyway and get out of his language comfort zone. So please keep it in mind when he is occasionally searching for the right word.

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:50 How did Victor end up going to space?

4:14 The Crypto Space Agency (CSA)

5:38 The CSA sweepstakes

6:35 Victor's initial reaction

7:57 Biggest fears

10:30 Family reaction

11:51 Marcos Pontes, the first Brazilian Astronaut

12:32 Preparing for space flight

15:24 Wife's reaction

16:19 Corn Ranch astronaut village

17:38 The bar at Corn Ranch

19:34 Formal training and bonding with the crew

23:00 The night before the launch

25:30 The final briefing and the day of the launch

28:00 Countdown and liftoff

29:40 Microgravity

33:50 Seeing Earth from Space

35:05 Memorable moments

37:10 Descending from Space

39:35 After-mission protocol

43:00 Special items

44:21 Aftermath

45:50 Coming back to Brazil

49:22 Post-Space life

Daniel Bock and Istvan Lőrincz are the co-founders of Morpheus Space, an innovative electric propulsion company based in Germany and the U.S. I met them for the first time at IAC in 2019 when they won the pitch competition and since then they have done really well, including announcing a US$28 million Series A last September. Please enjoy listening to them talk about their technology and their entrepreneurial journey!

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:31 Elevator pitch

4:12 The origin of "Morpheus Space"

7:40 Perceived market gap

9:54 Is propulsion for collision avoidance all just a PR stunt?

11:36 Satellite collision data

13:25 Propulsion modeling

17:05 Business model

20:51 Talking to customers

21:48 Propulsion

28:29 Scaleability

30:36 Product constraints and challenges

33:25 Morpheus Space other line of products

36:21 How to prioritize

39:05 Partnership with Kayhan Space

41:11 Vision for the company

42:35 Other interesting things in the Space sector

45:45 Sci-Fi

This is our annual preview of some of the things to watch out for in the space sector in 2023!

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

03:46 Launch

8:28 Human Space Flight

12:01 Science exploration missions

12:51 Satellite communications & EO

13:44 Finance

14:57 Exciting Events in 2023

15:32 Education and Outreach

Space Ambition is a very popular space blog on Substack, with over 11000 subscribers. Its founder Alexandra Vidyuk is our guest this week. She is also a space tech investor at Aloniq VC. We talk about both of her roles. Enjoy!

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro 2:08 Alex's activities in the space sector 3:10 Space Ambition origins 5:48 Transitioning into the space sector 7:23 What is Space Ambition? 9:04 Topics 11:42 "Spotlights" 14:30 Insights from Spotlights 17:30 Women in Space 20:20 Dream guest 21:61 Insights of space tech investors 22:58 Other space media 25:13 Getting into space investing 27:28 Other deep tech areas vs. space 29:33 Interesting areas in space 31:33 Investor perspectives 35:53 The Singapore Space Ecosystem 38:58 Sci-fi

I’m guessing many if not most of you are aware of the dearMoon project. Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa, or MZ, is inviting 8 artists to join him on a circumlunar flight on Starship. One of the 8 selected crew is American documentary filmmaker Brendan Hall. He is our guest on this episode and we discuss everything from his motivation to apply, over the selection process, to his objectives for the mission, and even some of the things he may take along. dearMoon has everyting to be one of the most fascinating human spaceflight missions ever and this episode is our first look at it – don’t miss it.

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro 3:02 Where Brendan was when he found out he was selected as a crew member 5:30 Mindset through the selection process 6:55 Weighing risks and responsibilities 13:39 Where to point the camera lens 16:21 Microgravity 18:10 Initial selection process 23:15 Further steps of the process 26:21 Crew synergies 29:57 Ideal outcome of the mission 32:18 National parks 36:06 The night sky and the Moon 38:42 Special places on Earth 41:00 Humanity's future on the Moon 42:27 Sci-Fi 44:08 What Brendan has been up to since finding out he was on the crew 46:40 Things to bring along on the mission

Casey Handmer writes a blog that many of you may already read called, well, Casey Handmer's blog. His posts regularly explore fascinating space topics such as e.g. explaining misconceptions about Starship or how to terraform Mars. We could not possibly do justice to the wealth of topics he’s written about in one podcast episode, but we are talking somewhat of a whirlwind tour through some of his best known posts on space. I think you’ll really enjoy it!

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:30 Casey's blog

3:57 Target audience

4:51 Topic selection

7:53 Lunar base post

8:59 Power delivery to the Moon

12:24 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

13:09 Understanding Starship

17:04 Getting humanity to Mars

21:50 Why come back to Earth?

26:05 Starship use cases on Mars

31:47 Constraints on building a self-sufficient city on Mars

33:50 Terraforming Mars

40:34 Convincing people to go to Mars

44:02 Space babies

51:51 Sci-Fi

Dan Katz is the co-founder and CEO of Orbital Sidekick, a San Francisco-based company deploying a constellation of hyperspectral remote sensing satellites. Among other things, I talk to Dan about the capabilities and use cases of this exciting technology. Enjoy!

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Learn more about space & the space economy:

• Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
• There is now a certificate for those wanting to enter the space sector: https://www.spacecertificate.com
• Do you want to specifically learn about investing in Space? Join the pre-release of Raphael's new live-taught course on Maven:  https://maven.com/space-business-institute/investing-course

The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics.

 

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro 2:14 Elevator Pitch 3:55 What is Hyperspectral Earth Observation? 10:16 Multispectral vs. Hyperspectral vs. ... Ultraspectral(?)  14:40 The upper bounds of spectral resolution 18:55 Operating at night time and under cloud cover 22:43 Data and onboard processing 27:15 Business Model 30:50 Coverage 31:52 Resolution 36:28 Pipeline leaks as a use case 40:14 Orbital Sidekick's satellites 45:43 Selling to non-space customers 48:37 Vision for the company 52:42 Origin story 56:05 Space trends 58:00 Sci-Fi

Egbert Jan van der Veen is the head of strategy of well-known, publicly-listed German space company OHB. He’s also the head of their corporate venture capital arm, which has invested in a number of well-known space companies, including some that have been on this podcast. So he has a really good view of the space sector in general and also specifically about space startups. Enjoy!

Btw, happy Thanksgivings holiday to our many listeners in the U.S.!

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Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:22 Egbert's background 5:39 Space in 2010 9:09 The OHB experience 10:38 Engineering vs. Business 11:47 What is OHB? 15:15 Vertical integration and supply chain 17:30 Cubesats and Smallsats 20:27 Vertical integration and demand 25:27 The DNA of OHB 28:12 Opportunities in satellite components 32:10 Noteworthy trends on satellite integration 34:30 The Software side of things 36:09 Rockets 40:33 OHB name origin 41:45 OHB Ventures 44:17 What kind of opportunities OHB is looking for 47:09 Disruptive Space tech in 2022 49:20 Sci-Fi

Our guest this week is Jaume Sanpera, CEO & founder of Sateliot, a Barcelona-based startup providing IOT connectivity from space. IOT is an interesting market which various startups (and established companies) are tackling and we discuss current and future use cases, what technology Sateliot uses, how it is executing its go-to-market, and many other things. You will not want to miss this one. Enjoy!

Sateliot's job board: https://sateliot.space/en/careers/

The English version of Raphael's introductory book to the space economy will be out very soon. There continue to be the Portuguese ("Para cima") and German ("Hoch Hinaus") editions.

Learn more about space & the space economy:

• Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
• Do you want to specifically learn about investing in Space? Join the pre-release of Raphael's new live-taught course on Maven:  https://maven.com/space-business-institute/investing-course

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro 2:23 Elevator Pitch 3:47 The comparison with satellite-to-mobile  6:29 Details on system architecture 9:29 Space Debris 10:09 Ground based infrastructure 14:42 Data and use cases 22:32 Spectrum rights 26:33 First coverage areas 28:12 Customer acquisition 34:42 Pricing and what matters to customers 37:27 Ocean-based use cases 41:55 10-year vision 43:20 Challenges for the sector 46:22 Origin story 48:53 Advice on space business 50:17 Sateliot is hiring 51:40 What else is interesting in space 52:45 Sci-Fi

The English version of my introductory book to the space economy is finally about to come out. In this special episode, I read the introductory chapter for you.

Opportunities to learn more about space & the space economy:

• Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
• Do you want to specifically learn about investing in Space? Join the pre-release of Raphael's new live-taught course on Maven:  https://maven.com/space-business-institute/investing-course

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro 4:43 Book preview - introductory chapter, read by Raphael

My guest Ole Dokka probably knows the Norwegian space ecosystem like nobody else. He is the organizer of the Spaceport Norway conference, which will take place in Oslo next week. We talk about what is going on in space in Norway, including the Andøya spaceport, and of course also about the conference. Enjoy!

Opportunities to learn more about space & the space economy:

• Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
• Do you want to specifically learn about investing in Space? Join the pre-release of Raphael's new live-taught course on Maven:  https://maven.com/space-business-institute/investing-course
• Raphael's introductory book on the space economy recently came out in its Portuguese translation: https://www.amazon.com/Para-Cima-Economia-Espacial-Portuguese-ebook/dp/B09X5WV3WC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ROKTHNSCZCRI. Stay tuned for the English translation, which should come out soon.

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro 2:06 Ole's background 4:35 Transitioning from corporate life to the space sector 7:03 2016 vs 2022 8:04 Spaceport Norway 12:44 Who is going to Spaceport Norway? 14:30 Bringing in non-space corporations 16:10 What makes a good space conference? 21:55 The Norwegian space ecosystem 25:40 The Norwegian national space strategy 30:22 Norway's potential in the space sector 36:46 Ole's future projects 39:25 Sci-fi

In this episode we talk about predicting extreme weather, timely (if not planned!) given hurricane Ian -- by the way, we hope you are all safe & sound! Dan Harkins, the COO of Tropical Weather Analytics will tell us about extreme weather and how their proposed satellite constellation may help us predict it. 

  TWA Website: https://weathersats.com/   Opportunities to learn more about space & the space economy:

• Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
• Do you want to specifically learn about investing in Space? Join the pre-release of Raphael's new live-taught course on Maven:  https://maven.com/space-business-institute/investing-course
• Raphael's introductory book on the space economy recently came out in its Portuguese translation: https://www.amazon.com/Para-Cima-Economia-Espacial-Portuguese-ebook/dp/B09X5WV3WC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ROKTHNSCZCRI. Stay tuned for the English translation, which should come out soon.

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:30 Elevator pitch

3:22 NASA's weather prediction tech

4:09 Prediction timeframe and accuracy

8:17 The Polar Vortex

9:03 Why has nobody done this before?

11:24 What Tropical Weather Analytics provides

15:03 Measuring wind

17:13 The ESA Arctic Weather Satellite and other sources of data

19:32 Reluctance to use this data

23:55 Key customer segments and go to market strategy

28:14 Aviation

30:53 Satellites

32:28 Timeline, fundraising and vision

35:27 Microwave sounders

38:23 Climate Change analysis

39:30 Origin story

40:50 What else to do in the space sector

43:11 Sci-Fi NB: Dan briefly mentions Spaced Ventures at some point. For full disclosure, Raphael is a member of Spaced's investment advisory committee. As a reminder, the podcast is purely for journalistic purposes and nothing constitutes investment advice or solicitation.

My guest this week is Austin Link, a co-founder of Starfish Space. Starfish develops a space tug that can be used for satellite life extension and space debris removal. Austin and his co-founder Trevor both came out of Blue Origin and are now well on their way at Starfish, which raised a seed round last year. Please enjoy listening to their story.   https://www.starfishspace.com/   Opportunities to learn more about space & the space economy:

• Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
• Do you want to specifically learn about investing in Space? Join the pre-release of Raphael's new live-taught course on Maven:  https://maven.com/space-business-institute/investing-course
• Raphael's introductory book on the space economy recently came out in its Portuguese translation: https://www.amazon.com/Para-Cima-Economia-Espacial-Portuguese-ebook/dp/B09X5WV3WC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ROKTHNSCZCRI. Stay tuned for the English translation, which should come out soon.

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:16 Elevator pitch & origin story

6:06 Blue Origin

14:14 The satellite life extension market

19:42 Debris removal

24:00 Going to market

27:10 Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Docking (RPOD)

33:43 Starfish Space timeline

36:59 Working with Governments

38:46 Starfish Space is hiring

39:04 What else to do in the space sector

41:50 Sci-Fi

 

This episode is with a guest who I wanted to have on for a while. Avi Loeb is a Professor of Science at Harvard and was the chair of its astronomy department from 2011 to 2020. He has written 8 books, including the best-seller “Extraterrestrial”, and hundreds of research papers. Among many other things, he is well-known for his views on the Oumuamua interstellar object, and he now heads the Galileo project, which is looking for further such objects. One of his upcoming projects is an expedition to try to retrieve fragments of another interstellar object from the ocean floor. If all this wasn’t interesting enough, we also talk about academia, the way science is pursued, and how we can ensure our kids maintain scientific curiosity. Enjoy!   Avi's book "Extraterrestrial": https://www.amazon.com/Extraterrestrial-First-Intelligent-Beyond-Earth/dp/0358278147   Opportunities to learn more about space & the space economy:

• Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
• Do you want to specifically learn about investing in Space? Join the pre-release of Raphael's new live-taught course on Maven:  https://maven.com/space-business-institute/investing-course
• Raphael's introductory book on the space economy recently came out in its Portuguese translation: https://www.amazon.com/Para-Cima-Economia-Espacial-Portuguese-ebook/dp/B09X5WV3WC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ROKTHNSCZCRI. Stay tuned for the English translation, which should come out soon.

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  Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:14 Avi's farm background and the "Indistinguishable grains of sand" 4:27 What makes humanity unique? 8:49 How academics can suppress innovation 12:01 Fixing the academic "system" 20:07 The Fermi Paradox 25:34 Cosmic archaeology 35:32 Is Earth worth visiting? 39:50 The Galileo Project 40:52 UAPs 44:29 Current status of observation tech 49:13 Planned expedition to the Ocean floor 53:40 Projects that we should be engaging in 57:42 James Webb Space Telescope 01:00:36 Keeping your childlike curiosity  

Inflatable space modules is what we are talking about in this episode, and that is Max Space’s product, a company that just came out more publicly at Space Symposium. My guest for the episode is CEO & co-founder Aaron Kemmer, who some of you may remember from his previous role as a co-founder of the in-space manufacturing company Made in Space. Aaron and I talk about his motivation to set up Max Space, and how their inflatables can be used for example as habitats, research labs, manufacturing sites and even as sports and entertainment venues in space. For full disclosure: Max Space is a portfolio company of E2MC, the space venture capital fund founded by our host Raphael Roettgen.

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Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:26 Max Space 3:32 Rationale for starting Max Space 7:22 Inflatables 9:26 Space in space 13:13 In-space experiments 15:51 Business model 18:13 Customization for use cases 21:13 User guide 22:27 Life support and space hazards 26:48 End of life planning 30:18 Inflatables beyond Earth orbit 35:50 Volume 36:44 Fitting windows & other structures 40:00 Inflating 41:00 First module in space 43:12 Major to-dos and milestones 46:25 Regulatory process 47:52 Long-term vision 51:20 Other exciting things in the space industry 55:07 Sci-fi

This week we talk about military space. The military has been part of space exploration since the beginning, and it continues to be very important, including as a major customer of, and even occasional investor in, commercial space companies. So it makes sense that we spend some time talking about military space in this podcast. I suspect there will be several episodes on this topic, but my first guest, in this episode, is Professor Bleddyn Bowen from the University of Leicester. He has literally written the book on military space, aptly called “War in Space” and will soon publish another one. We talk about his books, the recent establishment of the U.S. Space Force, how one should think about space as a military domain, about relevant space capabilities, and a few other things. Enjoy!

Prof. Bleddyn Bowen's books: https://www.amazon.com/Bleddyn-E-Bowen/e/B09X5QSTNW/   Opportunities to learn more about space & the space economy:

• Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
• Raphael is designing a new, live-taught course. Join the mailing list to get updates and early access: https://jfx8zhjodpz.typeform.com/to/t0VSuhVD
• Raphael's introductory book on the space economy recently came out in its Portuguese translation: https://www.amazon.com/Para-Cima-Economia-Espacial-Portuguese-ebook/dp/B09X5WV3WC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ROKTHNSCZCRI. Stay tuned for the English translation, which should come out soon.

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

3:15 The space domain as a military domain

8:00 Which problem(s) could the Space Force solve?

12:08 Bleddyn's books

13:03 Why Space warfare?

14:52 Analogies to space a military domain

19:30 Key capabilities

24:12 Space defense companies

28:11 Potential vulnerable capabilities

38:24 Circling back to Bleddyn's books

44:19 Sci Fi

My guest this week is the CEO and founder of Phantom Space, Jim Cantrell. Having started at JPL, Jim is also a decades-long veteran of commercial space. He has been involved in around a dozen space startups, including SpaceX in its early days. There are probably few people who have been around the commercial space sector as much as he has, so we do not only talk about Phantom but about the space economy in general. Enjoy!

https://www.phantomspace.com/   Opportunities to learn more about space & the space economy:

• Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
• Raphael is designing a new, live-taught course. Join the mailing list to get updates and early access: https://jfx8zhjodpz.typeform.com/to/t0VSuhVD
• Raphael's introductory book on the space economy recently came out in its Portuguese translation: https://www.amazon.com/Para-Cima-Economia-Espacial-Portuguese-ebook/dp/B09X5WV3WC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ROKTHNSCZCRI. Stay tuned for the English translation, which should come out soon.

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Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:20 Jim's background 6:30 The last 20 years in space vs. Jim's expectations 9:20 SpaceX 14:14 A couple of key lessons from SpaceX 21:23 Phantom Space business model 24:15 Phantom Space and partner startups 26:55 Taking the "friction" out of space business 32:47 Standardization in space 35:32 How Russia is affecting the Space Economy 39:57 Vision for Phantom Space 40:40 Key lessons from Jim's experience with startups 45:18 Core DNA of Phantom Space 47:15 Phantom Space's vehicles 50:23 Phantom Space in 10 years 50:56 Rapid fire questions on the space economy 55:33 The space sector in 20 years 01:01:42 Fun questions

My guest this week is the President of Portugal Space, the Portuguese Space Agency, Ricardo Conde. Portugal Space was only recently formed, in 2019. Ricardo and I talk about that experience of founding a new national space agency and dive into some of their marquis projects, including in the remote sensing value chain and the Santa Maria Spaceport in the Azores Islands. We also talk about the space economy in general and how a country like Portugal can add specific value. A quick heads up: this episode was live recorded in Ricardo’s offices and there is some background noise from the AC, but it gets better over time. Enjoy!   Opportunities to learn more about space & the space economy:

• Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
• Raphael is designing a new, live-taught course. Join the mailing list to get updates and early access: https://jfx8zhjodpz.typeform.com/to/t0VSuhVD
• Raphael's introductory book on the space economy recently came out in its Portuguese translation: https://www.amazon.com/Para-Cima-Economia-Espacial-Portuguese-ebook/dp/B09X5WV3WC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ROKTHNSCZCRI

The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics.

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

3:51 The origins of Portugal Space

17:29 Global navigation data friction and space debris

31:44 Portugal Space timeline

37:52 Open sourcing capability for space startups and space education

48:33 Building an ecosystem of space companies in Portugal

52:54 Space law and regulations in Portugal

57:45 International space companies

59:37 The potential successful outcome

01:02:25 PT Space is hiring!

01:05:00 Closing message

My guest this week is Bessie Schwarz from Cloud to Street, a company that uses satellite imagery, and other data, to come up with better flood models for customers like governments and insurance companies. Hence, it is an example of the use of space technology for something useful right here on Earth, which is one of our favorite topics!   Opportunities to learn more about space & the space economy:

• Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
• Raphael is designing a new, live-taught course. Join the mailing list to get updates and early access: https://jfx8zhjodpz.typeform.com/to/t0VSuhVD
• Raphael's introductory book on the space economy recently came out in its Portuguese translation: https://www.amazon.com/Para-Cima-Economia-Espacial-Portuguese-ebook/dp/B09X5WV3WC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ROKTHNSCZCRI

The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics.

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:28 Elevator pitch

5:18 Origin story

8:07 The product

16:40 Clients

21:31 Value-add

28:24 The flood model

30:25 Using space data for Earth

38:22 Market size

41:17 Vision

44:02 Core competencies

48:10 Funding the business

50:35 Closing questions incl. sci-fi & cli-fi