Dostcast Building Indian Satellites, Meeting Elon Musk, and Spacetech | Dostcast w/ Awais Ahmed
Awais Ahmed is the founder and CEO of Pixxel, a space technology start-up. He was part of BITS Pilani's official student nano-satellite team, 'Team Anant'. In 2017, he was one of the finalists of the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2017.
In this podcast,
▸ Vinamre and Awais talk about why Elon Musk is wrong about colonizing Mars.
▸ How Awais splits his time between LA and Bengaluru
▸ How much resistance he had to face as private space company from ISRO
Timestamps:
(0:00) Intro
(1:01) Winning a competition to meet Elon Musk
(2:27) This is what hyperloop really is
(9:56) Learning to build a satellite at BITS Pilani
(11:12) You probably didn't know this about satellites
(14:36) What happens to a satellite when it stops working
(18:19) Awais explains why SpaceX invests in his company
(25:02) How the government allowed a private company to build satellites
(31:02) Interning with HAL on a combat helicopter
(32:33) Monitoring the health of Earth using satellites
(39:42) Making $1 per acre from space
(44:22) Private companies are dominating the space industry
(48:24) Predicting the eruption of volcanoes from space
(50:10) Awais opens up on whether he feels left out in Bengaluru
(55:22) Awais disagrees with Elon Musk about colonizing Mars
(57:14) Conclusion
Listen to the audio version of the full podcasts at -
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/70vrbHeSvrcXyOeISTyBSy?si=eZQk7N3_QOmvOfu0umGjzg
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Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/dostcast/id1538251790
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