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

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