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
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