Space Business Podcast

In this episode, we are talking about computing in space again. If you listened to episode 49, with Exo-Space, you already know a little about this topic. This week, my guest is Steve Good, Chief Commercial Officer of Ramon Space, another company focused on computing in space. If you have comments or questions about the episode, email us at spacebusinesspodcast@gmail.com or post them on our Twitter (@podcast_space). If you enjoy the show, please leave us a review on your favorite podcast app - we highly appreciate it! The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics and produced in partnership with the International Space University (ISU). Follow the podcast on Twitter @podcast_space If you got interested in learning more about the business opportunities in space, check out my online course at https://www.udemy.com/course/space-entrepreneurship/ If you speak German, also check out my recently published introductory book on the space economy. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:58 Elevator Pitch 4:33 The current state of computing in space 8:27 Availability of more advanced hardware in space 14:55 Ramon's products 17:13 Radiation 20:47 Sales 24:44 Ramon strategy 28:52 Hosted payloads 34:15 Vision 36:42 Space certification time vs hardware cycle 39:15 Favorite use cases 42:43 Sci-Fi

We are talking about space debris again this week. Unfortunately this topic just keeps getting more urgent, e.g. due to the recent anti-satellite test. My guest is Araz Feyzi from Kayhan Space. Kayhan ingests data about space objects, including debris, and provides warnings about potential collisions and guidance for avoidance maneuvers. If you have comments or questions about the episode, email us at spacebusinesspodcast@gmail.com or post them on our Twitter (@podcast_space). If you enjoy the show, please leave us a review on your favorite podcast app - we highly appreciate it! The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics and produced in partnership with the International Space University (ISU). Follow the podcast on Twitter @podcast_space If you got interested in learning more about the business opportunities in space, check out my online course at https://www.udemy.com/course/space-entrepreneurship/ If you speak German, also check out my recently published introductory book on the space economy. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:58 Kayhan's Elevator Pitch and collisions in space 11:28 The 1 in 10,000 collision chance 18:45 Fully automated processes and unpredictable events 25:50 Alternative tracking methods 32:03 Where Kayhan is now 34:17 Kayhan is hiring 36:33 Sci-fi

After the quick overview about space stations two episodes ago, on this episode, I am actually talking to a space station startup, ThinkOrbital. They are proposing an innovative solution to build bigger stations, and lots of them. I discuss all of that with their CEO Sebastian Asprella and CTO Vojtech Holub. Enjoy! If you have comments or questions about the episode, email us at spacebusinesspodcast@gmail.com or post them on our Twitter (@podcast_space). If you enjoy the show, please leave us a review on your favorite podcast app - we highly appreciate it! The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics and produced in partnership with the International Space University (ISU). Follow the podcast on Twitter @podcast_space If you got interested in learning more about the business opportunities in space, check out my online course at https://www.udemy.com/course/space-entrepreneurship/ If you speak German, also check out my recently published introductory book on the space economy. Timestamp: 0:00 Intro 1:56 Elevator pitch and background story 4:25 Use cases 08:45 The roadmap to 2069 13:04 Space Tourism 16:27 The special tech behind Think Orbital 21:45 Making space tourism cheaper 24:32 The overview of the Space Station landscape 31:31 Emerging Space Nations 35:57 The challenges of designing and operating a space station 42:08 What is the 2022 plan? 43:19 what would you do if you weren't doing ThinkOrbital? 45:20 Sci-fi

My guest this week is Luca Rossettini, founder and CEO of D-Orbit, arguably one of the most prominent European new space companies. D-Orbit is already successfully operating a last-mile delivery service in orbit, a so-called space tug, but there is so much more on their visionary roadmap. Luca and I talk all about it - enjoy! If you have comments or questions about the episode, email us at spacebusinesspodcast@gmail.com or post them on our Twitter (@podcast_space). If you enjoy the show, please leave us a review on your favorite podcast app - we highly appreciate it! The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics and produced in partnership with the International Space University (ISU). Follow the podcast on Twitter @podcast_space If you got interested in learning more about the business opportunities in space, check out my online course at https://www.udemy.com/course/space-entrepreneurship/ If you speak German, also check out my recently published introductory book on the space economy. Episode notes: 0:00 Intro 1:51 D-Orbit elevator pitch & history 12:57 Fundraising and business focus over time 16:54 "Skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been" 19:24 D-Orbit's core activities and roadmap 25:29 D-Orbit's ION space tug 36:33 Other roadmap elements 47:43 Interplanetary transport 52:37 What else is interesting in space? 54:05 Sci-Fi

This week's episode is another short teach-in episode, just like my episodes #34 on business models in space and #43 on Starship. This time we will talk about space stations, in light of the recent announcements of two new proposed commercial space stations. Enjoy! If you have comments or questions about the episode, email us at spacebusinesspodcast@gmail.com or post them on our Twitter (@podcast_space). If you enjoy the show, please leave us a review on your favorite podcast app - we highly appreciate it! The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics and produced in partnership with the International Space University (ISU). Follow the podcast on Twitter @podcast_space If you got interested in learning more about the business opportunities in space, check out my online course at https://www.udemy.com/course/space-entrepreneurship/ If you speak German, also check out my recently published introductory book on the space economy.   Episode Notes: 0:00 Intro 1:25 Why are we talking about Space Stations and what is CLD? 3:43 Government Space Stations 5:53 Private Space Stations 10:21 Other space station projects and the future of space stations  

My guest this week is Mo Islam from Payload Space, a new space focused media company. If you are like me, you are always on the lookout for where to get your space news from –besides this podcast of course. The Payload email newsletter, which is their first product, is one of my favorites - sign up here. They recently closed their seed getting money from a number of investors, including the Winklevoss twins and are now gearing up to expand. Mo will tell us all about it. Enjoy! If you have comments or questions about the episode, email us at spacebusinesspodcast@gmail.com or post them on our Twitter (@podcast_space). If you enjoy the show, please leave us a review on your favorite podcast app - we highly appreciate it! The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics and produced in partnership with the International Space University (ISU). Follow the podcast on Twitter @podcast_space If you got interested in learning more about the business opportunities in space, check out my online course at https://www.udemy.com/course/space-entrepreneurship/ If you speak German, also check out my recently published introductory book on the space economy. Episode Notes 0:00 Intro 2:00 Payload Space origins and The "media gap" in covering the space sector 9:54 The parallels to Crypto 14:30 Content strategy 20:47 Free vs Paid 28:18 Geographic target region 33:59 Finding experts and hiring people 37:56 The jump from weekly to daily content 40:31 Favorite stories 47:03 If you weren't doing Payload Space, what would you be doing? 47:42 Sci-Fi

My guests this week are from Exo-Space, a company offering a platform for on-orbit data processing, so basically edge computing in space. That is becoming quite a popular topic for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that we are generating an ever increasing amount of data in space. Let’s hear all about it! If you have comments or questions about the episode, email us at spacebusinesspodcast@gmail.com or post them on our Twitter (@podcast_space). If you enjoy the show, please leave us a review on your favorite podcast app - we highly appreciate it! The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics and produced in partnership with the International Space University (ISU). Follow the podcast on Twitter @podcast_space If you got interested in learning more about the business opportunities in space, check out my online course at https://www.udemy.com/course/space-entrepreneurship/ If you speak German, also check out my recently published introductory book on the space economy. Episode Notes 0:00 Intro 1:40 Elevator Pitch 3:20 Why don't we have real time space data? 5:16 Time advantage 8:02 Relay solutions, ground stations, machine vision and edge computing 11:26 Origin of the idea 14:47 The hardware product 21:14 Use cases and competitive landscape 30:07 More on use cases 35:44 Vision 37:53 If you weren't doing Exo-Space, what would you be doing? 40:18 Sci-Fi

This week we are talking about space debris. My guest is Luc Piguet, co-founder and CEO of Swiss space company ClearSpace. They are building a spacecraft that can remove debris – it looks really cool, sort of like a giant spider, check it out. They already have a big ESA contract for the first mission. Space debris is a problem to take seriously and Luc is one of the best people in the World to explain it. Episode Notes: 0:00 Intro 1:40 Elevator pitch 2:57 Space debris scale and the Kessler syndrome 7:52 Legislation and non-tech challenges 18:23 Space's prisoners dilemma/tragedy of the commons 22:44 Clearspace origins 29:42 Mission and Hardware 42:55 Multiple deorbiting and the steady state operation of the company 50:07 Revenue model 55:48 Vision for Clearspace 58:25 Sci-Fi

Dr. Pete Worden is a distinguished space scientist, who holds and has held many prominent roles in the space ecosystem, including: Chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, a former Director of NASA Ames, a former USAF General, advisor to the Luxembourg Government on space resources and a trustee of the International Space University. Much of our conversation revolves around finding life in other places. Enjoy! Episode Notes: 0:00 Intro 2:04 The Breakthrough Prize Foundation 8:18 Looking for life in space 14:43 Terrestrial interference 16:34 Breakthrough Starshot 22:02 Other potential missions 26:16 Other locations to look for simple or intelligent life 33:45 Interstellar objects 41:51 What should we do with the moon? 44:56 How can we mess this up? 50:00 Sci-Fi 52:00 Breakthrough Prize Announcements  

This week I sat down with Delian Asparouhov, a principal at famed VC Founders Fund and also co-founder and President of Varda, a space startup focused on in-space manufacturing. If you have comments or questions about the episode, email us at spacebusinesspodcast@gmail.com or post them on our Twitter (@podcast_space). If you enjoy the show, please leave us a review on your favorite podcast app - we highly appreciate it! The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics and produced in partnership with the International Space University (ISU). Follow the podcast on Twitter @podcast_space If you got interested in learning more about the business opportunities in space, check out my online course at https://www.udemy.com/course/space-entrepreneurship/ If you speak German, also check out my recently published introductory book on the space economy. Episode Notes: 0:00 Intro 1:47 Delian's background 3:43 How did you get involved in Space investing? 10:30 Non-obvious signs of why space attractive 17:53 Incubation projects in space 23:51 Value chain in space 30:26 Space investing opportunities  39:53 Space companies with government dependence 45:10 What could go wrong? 47:43 Favorite ways of keeping up with the space economy 49:14 The Miami ecosystem 52:00 Sci-Fi