Interview with carbon-carbon printer, artificial solar sun schemer, space robotics guru, and future-space pirate Cole Nielsen-Cole, CTO of Orbital Composites.

0:00 Founding inspiration

4:53 Similarity between drones & satellites

6:20 Why Carbon Fiber is hard

9:42 Heat treatment for rocket nozzles

14:38 Cole’s artificial sun

16:59 List everything you’re doing

21:28 What first inspired you? 

24:44 More projects

27:58 Orbital & Artemis mission

30:39 Why care about Mars?

35:10 How do you focus? 

36:14 Hardest challenge

38:17 What does deep tech get wrong?

40:26 The inspiration problem

42:56 How do you think?

46:55 Why build hard things?