Space Business Podcast

#81 Dan Harkins, Tropical Weather Analytics

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In this episode we talk about predicting extreme weather, timely (if not planned!) given hurricane Ian -- by the way, we hope you are all safe & sound!

Dan Harkins, the COO of Tropical Weather Analytics will tell us about extreme weather and how their proposed satellite constellation may help us predict it. 

 
TWA Website: https://weathersats.com/
 
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    Timestamps

    0:00 Intro

    2:30 Elevator pitch

    3:22 NASA's weather prediction tech

    4:09 Prediction timeframe and accuracy

    8:17 The Polar Vortex

    9:03 Why has nobody done this before?

    11:24 What Tropical Weather Analytics provides

    15:03 Measuring wind

    17:13 The ESA Arctic Weather Satellite and other sources of data

    19:32 Reluctance to use this data

    23:55 Key customer segments and go to market strategy

    28:14 Aviation

    30:53 Satellites

    32:28 Timeline, fundraising and vision

    35:27 Microwave sounders

    38:23 Climate Change analysis

    39:30 Origin story

    40:50 What else to do in the space sector

    43:11 Sci-Fi


    NB: Dan briefly mentions Spaced Ventures at some point. For full disclosure, Raphael is a member of Spaced's investment advisory committee. As a reminder, the podcast is purely for journalistic purposes and nothing constitutes investment advice or solicitation.

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