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
#46 Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund & Varda
#45 - Galactic Chloe
#44 Tim Chrisman, Foundation for the Future: building the space economy
#43 Starship
#42 Going to the Moon with Yoav Landsman
#41 Yanina Hallak, UARX Space: space transportation
#40 Guillermo Söhnlein: NewSpace - from scarcity to abundance
#39 Josh Western, Space Forge: in-space manufacturing
#38 Moon Society: Developing the Moon
#37 Laura Forczyk, Astralytical
#36 - Aravind Ravichandran, Terrawatch Space
#35 Pangea Aerospace: Aerospikes
#34 Teach-in: Businesses in Space
#33 Dr. M.V. "Coyote" Smith: Space-based Solar Power
#32 Michael Laine, Liftport - Space Elevators
#31 David Shilling: Mad Hatter heading for space
#30 Sven Przywarra, LiveEO - monitoring infrastructure from space
#29 Gernot Groemer, OeWF - Analog Mars Missions and more
#28 Temidayo Oniosun - Space in Africa
#27 - Jim Green: NASA's Chief Scientist
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