Altair Insights: Recent Episodes
Altair Insights
Altair Insights is a podcast where space meets business. The two hosts, Martynas Fedotovas and Nicholas Chinchaladze, joined with the world’s most prominent industry experts decipher the success stories of space companies, existing trends, and hot issues in the industry, as well as the ways to capitalize on the existing opportunities for the emerging startups and how to take your company to the next level.
Fredrik Schader, who is a co-founder and CSO of Arctic Space, shares his view on the importance of diversity of founders in space companies.
Fredrik Schader, who is a co-founder and CSO of Arctic Space, shares his view on the next level of space sustainability.
Fredrik Schader, who is a co-founder and CSO of Arctic Space, discusses how their company combines sustainability with innovation.
Fredrik Schader, who is a co-founder & chief strategy officer of Arctic Space Technologies, talks about establishing cyberproof ground station operations.
Altair Insights host Martynas Fedotovas is joined by Fredrik Schader, who is a co-founder & chief strategy officer of Arctic Space Technologies, where they talk about how ground station communications are enabling data transfer from space.
Arctic Space Technologies is an innovative ground station operator, based out of Lulea, Sweden. By combining their expertise with renewable energy sources, green data centers, advanced infrastructure and mild weather assets provided by their region, they offer their customers an unmatchable operational reliability, commercial viability, and scalability and find a tailored solution meeting for their operational and commercial requirements.
Marco Sala, CEO, and Michal Grendysz, CTO, of Revolv Space discuss how their company enables to extend operational lifetime of a small satellite.
Marco Sala, CEO, and Michał Grendysz, CTO, are co-founders of Revolv Space, a company developing Solar Array Rotary Actuator (SARA) that offers an automated sun-tracking mode to enhance power available on board (up to +117% per orbit). SARA provides orbital maneuvering capabilities through differential drag, for phasing and mission lifetime control end-of-life.
Veronica La Regina, who is a CEO of Nanoracks Europe, talks about 3 major opportunities in the New Space economy.
Veronica is a CEO of Nanoracks Europe. Before to join to Nanoracks she was Strategy and Business Development officer at RHEA and appointed at the ESA – ESTEC as Business Innovation Expert of the Commercial Partnerships’ initiative for space exploration in the Directorate of Human Space Flight and Robotic Exploration. Previously worked for the ESA – Technology Transfer Programme Office, Department of International Relations of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Even before worked at the European Space Policy Institute in Vienna, at the International Space University in Strasbourg, Telespazio SpA in Rome, Wave Energy Centre in Lisbon and as researcher at different universities in Europe and in the USA.
Rick Tumlinson, who is the founder of the SpaceFund venture capital company, talks about accessing destinations throughout the solar system.
Considered one of the best evangelists in the space field Rick is listed as one of the top 100 influential people in the space field.As a result of his world-changing work, in 2015 he won the World Technology Award along with Craig Venter of the Human Genome project. He consults with NASA and Space Force, founded the SpaceFund venture capital company, and his non-profit organization, the EarthLight Foundation, is creating an inclusive movement to use space to protect the Earth and expand life into the cosmos.
David Hawkins, who is a founder of Smokey Hawk Solitons and co-inventor of an electromagnetic soliton generator, talks about orbit correction propulsion systems for CubeSats.
David is a founder of Smokey Hawk Solitons and co-inventor of an electromagnetic soliton generator that is being developed for interplanetary transportation and sustainable propulsion in the Space environment. The electromagnetic soliton generator may change the conversation of Space exploration relating to speed, sustainability, and reliability of the propulsion system. David has a background in electrical engineering and aviation. He develops the technology with his brother and CTO Hunt Hawkins. David has an MBA from the University of Tennessee and an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering. He also has professional experience in patents in a wide range of other electrical technologies.
Pavel Habarta, who is a co-founder and a minority shareholder at STRATOSYST, talks about high altitude pseudo satellite advantages over LEO satellites.
Pavel Habarta, who is a co-founder and a minority shareholder at STRATOSYST, talks about achieving zero CO2 emissions with high-altitude pseudo-satellite.
Pavel is a co-founder and a minority shareholder at STRATOSYST s.r.o. Pavel is a CFO responsible for finance and funding. He manages finance and accounting team, identifies and pitches to investors. Also, he is responsible for company general affairs. He is a member of major internal R&D projects for both civil and defense markets, takes care of intellectual property rights protection, supervises quality control and products certification. Before Pavel joined STRATOSYST, he had been ESA Technology Broker at TC CAS, he had been a General Director at Prague Congress Centre, a Director of the Innovation center CKD, General Affairs Manager of Japanese solder paste production plant at HARIMA Chemicals and a Head of AfterCare Dept. at Investment promotion Agency CzechInvest.
John Lusk, who is a Senior Vice President and COO of Spire Maritime talks about how Spire helps to solve the global supply chain crisis.
John Lusk, who is a Senior Vice President and COO of Spire Maritime talks about harnessing space to solve the global supply chain crisis.
John is Senior Vice President and COO of Spire Maritime. He has been with the company since 2018 and previously led the Global Data Services group, which includes Maritime, Aviation and Weather. John has more than 25 years of experience driving go-to-market strategy and delivering unparalleled customer experiences in B2B and B2C industries ripe for disruption. Prior to Spire, John was Principal at The Lusk Group, LLC, a strategic consulting and advisory firm that he founded, and also served as the Entrepreneur-In-Residence at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a non-profit focused on entrepreneurship and education.
Jamie who is the CEO of Climate Engine, a Google Cloud partner company focused on using satellite data to build economic resilience to planetary change talks about preparing the agriculture industry from climate change threats.
Jamie who is the CEO of Climate Engine, a Google Cloud partner company focused on using satellite data to build economic resilience to planetary change talks about how satellite data helps to build more sustainable planet.
Jamie who is the CEO of Climate Engine, a Google Cloud partner company focused on using satellite data to build economic resilience to planetary change talks about how EO data predicts the economical consequences due to climate change.
Jamie who is the CEO of Climate Engine, a Google Cloud partner company focused on using satellite data to build economic resilience to planetary change talks about predicting agriculture outputs with spaceborne data.
Jamie who is the CEO of Climate Engine, a Google Cloud partner company focused on using satellite data to build economic resilience to planetary change talks about how his company is ''bridging the gap'' in various industry sectors with spaceborne data.
Jamie who is the CEO of Climate Engine, a Google Cloud partner company focused on using satellite data to build economic resilience to planetary change talks about how AI helps to manage petabytes of data and merge data sets.
Jamie who is the CEO of Climate Engine, a Google Cloud partner company focused on using satellite data to build economic resilience to planetary change talks how someone can get access to his company services or become a partners with him.
Jamie who is the CEO of Climate Engine, a Google Cloud partner company focused on using satellite data to build economic resilience to planetary change talks about why he decided to create his company.
Jamie is the CEO of Climate Engine, a Google Cloud partner company focused on using satellite data to build economic resilience to planetary change. In this capacity, he has worked with major corporations and financial institutions around the world. Prior to this, Jamie was the executive digital producer for a variety of climate data products for organizations such as the World Bank, NOAA, NASA, the Gates Foundation, the White House, and the World Resources Institute. Jamie holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Information Sciences from Cornell University.
Brent Barbee is a scientist who works at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, his work includes serving as a member of the Investigation Team for NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft mission, the goal of which he is discussing in this clip.
Brent Barbee is a scientist who works at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, his work includes serving as a member of the Investigation Team for NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft mission. In this clip he talks about building spacecraft hardware with commercial off the shelf components.
Brent Barbee is a scientist who works at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, his work includes serving as a member of the Investigation Team for NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft mission. In this clip he talks about technology development to enhance reconnaissance capabilities.
Brent Barbee is a scientist who works at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, his work includes serving as a member of the Investigation Team for NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft mission. In this clip he talk about processing data algorithms for near earth objects.
Brent Barbee is a scientist who works at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, his work includes serving as a member of the Investigation Team for NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft mission. In this clip he discusses what techniques would we use to deflect an asteroid headed towards earth.
Brent Barbee is a scientist who works at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, his work includes serving as a member of the Investigation Team for NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft mission. In this clip he talk about spacecraft parameters for planetary defense missions.
Brent Barbee is a scientist who works at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, his work includes serving as a member of the Investigation Team for NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft mission. In this clip he talk about processing data algorithms for near earth objects.
Brent Barbee is a scientist who works at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, his work includes serving as a member of the Investigation Team for NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft mission. In this clip he talk about how do scientists categorize and detect asteroids?
Brent Barbee is an Aerospace Engineer currently working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and adjunct faculty in the University of Maryland's Department of Aerospace Engineering, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. His current work includes serving as a member of the Investigation Team for NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft mission, leading interagency spacecraft mission design research for planetary defense against hazardous asteroids and comets, serving as the technical lead for NASA's Near-Earth Object Human Space Flight Accessible Targets Study (NHATS), and serving as a chair of the International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defense Conference series. His prior work includes serving on the Flight Dynamics Team for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, serving on the 2017 NASA Near-Earth Object Science Definition Team, and being an author of the U.S. National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan. Main-belt asteroid 120208 was renamed "Brentbarbee" in honor of his contributions to asteroid missions and planetary defense. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.