One of the more recent innovations in satellite architecture is Software Defined Satellite platforms that are flexible and can be reconfigured even after launch. On this edition of The Ex Terra Podcast, Tom Patton talks with Sethu Saveda Suvanam, founder and CEO of ReOrbit, which is helping define the category.

"We can start developing a lot of advanced functionality on top of our software framework way before you have your hardware." Sethu Saveda Suvanam

Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, ReOrbit transforms technology, and enables space applications for our current and future society where efficiency, sustainability and security are unlocked to their full potential, according to their website.

"We bring a lot of flexibility, a lot of cost reduction, but also what we can do is we can start developing a lot of advanced functionality on top of our software framework way before you have your hardware." Suvanam said.

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