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
#66 Chris Hadfield
#65 Jakub Dziwisz, Orbify: simplifying satellite data apps
The New Space Economy MOOC
#64 Ian Christensen, Secure World Foundation: Space Sustainability
#63 Bulent Altan, Mynaric: space laser communications
#62 Peter Platzer, Spire
#61 Matt Villarreal, Infinite Composites: pressure vessels
#60 Nicolas Peter: Space in Europe, Entrepreneurship, ISU & more
#59 Laura Forczyk: Becoming Off-Worldly
#58 Eric Ingram, Scout: space domain awareness
#57 2022 Preview
#56 Steve Good, Ramon Space: in-space computing
#55 Araz Feyzi, Kayhan Space: space traffic management
#54 ThinkOrbital: Space Stations
#53 Luca Rossettini, D-Orbit: space logistics
#52 Space Stations Galore
#51 - Mo Islam, Payload Space
#49 Exo-Space - edge computing in space
#48 Luc Piguet, ClearSpace
#47 Dr. Pete Worden
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