Space Business Podcast #81 Dan Harkins, Tropical Weather Analytics
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.
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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.