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Mourning a Lost Satellite: How In-Space's Doug Liddle Bounced Back from a Tragic Launch Failure


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Satellite builders form a unique bond with their spacecraft. In-Space CEO Doug Liddle described his start-up's first satellite, Faraday-1, as a 'precious child' that he raised for 18 months before turning it over to the launch gods. This past July, the gods proved to be especially cruel to Liddle and the In-Space team, as the satellite was lost during a failed launch on Rocket Lab's Electron rocket. In this episode, Liddle takes us behind the scenes of the Faraday-1 loss, and explains how he was able to pull himself, and his team together to bounce back from the incident.

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