Space Business Podcast

#71 Payam Banazadeh, Capella Space

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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
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