Space startup founders
Founders building data centers in orbit, in-space refueling, lunar habitats and solar arrays the size of football fields, on how they got the hardware off the ground.
Moments
What Hop Aero builds: hypersonic point-to-point cargo rockets
Matija Milenovic, Hop Aero
Mitch's NASA work on kilometer-scale structures becomes a company
Pele Collins, Beyond Reach Labs
Learning to fly at Comox Air Force Base at 16
Skyler Chan, GRU Space
From idea to launch in five months with two people
Ashi Dissanayake, Spaceium
What a data center in space actually looks like
Philip Johnston, Starcloud
Jacob's typhoon relief mission and the grounded Ospreys
Matija Milenovic, Hop Aero
The pop-up tent idea and the patented flat-packing structure
Pele Collins, Beyond Reach Labs
How Galactic Resource Utilization became the name
Skyler Chan, GRU Space
Why spacecraft will not need to be perfect anymore
Ashi Dissanayake, Spaceium
The top investor objections and a slide for each one
Philip Johnston, Starcloud
Hand-carrying propulsion hardware on a 23-hour round trip
Matija Milenovic, Hop Aero
Why bigger solar arrays get floppy and slow satellites down
Pele Collins, Beyond Reach Labs
The four things that kill you on the Moon
Skyler Chan, GRU Space
Starting with geostationary orbit, where customers want fuel first
Ashi Dissanayake, Spaceium
Why Starcloud launches every year instead of one big bet
Philip Johnston, Starcloud
The hop: vertical takeoff, ballistic arc, re-entry and landing
Matija Milenovic, Hop Aero
Bigger arrays let satellites switch to cheap silicon cells
Pele Collins, Beyond Reach Labs
The hotel as a flywheel for a Moon base and Mars
Skyler Chan, GRU Space
Stations that can hold up to 30 metric tons of fuel
Ashi Dissanayake, Spaceium
Building and launching the first satellite on a $2.5M pre-seed
Philip Johnston, Starcloud
Launching from a 40-foot shipping container
Matija Milenovic, Hop Aero
Customer prototypes and a first flight of their own
Pele Collins, Beyond Reach Labs
Why space tourism is the customer that pulls the industry
Skyler Chan, GRU Space
Down to 80 cents and building out of a laundry room
Ashi Dissanayake, Spaceium
Processing Earth observation imagery in orbit instead of downlinking it
Philip Johnston, Starcloud
Door-to-door speed versus cargo stored in orbit
Matija Milenovic, Hop Aero
Over a hundred drop tests to qualify Dragon's parachutes
Pele Collins, Beyond Reach Labs
A brick-making Moon factory prototype built in six weeks
Skyler Chan, GRU Space
The call from YC after the fourth application
Ashi Dissanayake, Spaceium
Why waste heat will force compute off Earth
Philip Johnston, Starcloud
Where the Air Force Research Lab contract stands
Matija Milenovic, Hop Aero
How a software pitch to YC turned into a hardware company
Pele Collins, Beyond Reach Labs
The four-mission roadmap, from a 10 kg payload to the hotel
Skyler Chan, GRU Space
Why Spaceium does not plan to refuel satellites
Ashi Dissanayake, Spaceium
The worst take: build in space because space is cold
Philip Johnston, Starcloud
Why Hop Aero tests in Oklahoma
Matija Milenovic, Hop Aero
Near-death moments that made him start now
Skyler Chan, GRU Space
Running 95% of spacecraft tests in-house to iterate faster
Ashi Dissanayake, Spaceium
What a 40 megawatt module costs to build and launch
Philip Johnston, Starcloud