Description

My guest this week is the founder & CEO of another prominent new space company – Payam Banazadeh from Capella Space. Capella is a remote sensing company that is using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology. Don’t worry – we will explain what SAR is during the episode. The important summary: it allows you to see at night and through cloud cover. You can imagine that has interesting and important use cases. Payam will take us through those and many other things about Capella. Enjoy!

Capella's job board: https://www.capellaspace.com/about-us/careers/

Opportunities to learn more about space business:

• Check out the new edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
• Raphael is designing a new, live-taught course. Join the mailing list to get updates and early access: https://jfx8zhjodpz.typeform.com/to/t0VSuhVD
• Raphael's introductory book on the space economy recently came out in its Portuguese translation: https://www.amazon.com/Para-Cima-Economia-Espacial-Portuguese-ebook/dp/B09X5WV3WC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ROKTHNSCZCRI

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro
2:50 Elevator pitch
4:07 Origin story
8:00 MH370
10:05 Geographic coverage
14:58 General use cases
19:10 Pricing
21:11 Government use cases
25:02 Commercial use cases
29:40 Cool things Capella detected
32:05 Hostile behavior
35:44 Satellite manufacturing & design
39:22 Sales process
46:27 Consolidation
48:52 Vision
50:49 Financing
55:27 Wrap-up: hiring, other things to do in the space sector, sci-fi