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Space Business Podcast #104 - James Yenbamroong, Mu Space Corp

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We finally have a space startup from Asia (excl. Middle East) on the podcast. Many of you probably did not know that there is a late-stage space startup in Thailand. Mu Space is a Series C stage company manufacturing smallsats and their components. I caught up with their founder & CEO James Yenbamroong in person at the Mu Space headquarter office when I passed through Bangkok this week. Enjoy!

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    Timestamps: 

    0:00 Intro

    2:44 Elevator pitch
    3:09 Origin story
    5:54 Thai space ecosystem
    8:15 Supply chain and doing things from scratch
    9:39 Vertical integration
    11:42 Mu Space's satellite platforms
    13:04 Use cases
    14:40 Smallsats vs. cubesats
    17:00 Power
    18:45 More use cases
    21:18 On-board computing
    24:06 First missions
    27:10 Launch companies in Asia
    31:00 Regulatory restrictions
    33:34 Funding
    34:55 Satellite production and volume manufacturing
    39:08 Time from order to shipping
    42:00 Customers
    44:23 The Thai Food Space Mission 
    48:46 Mu Space's battery tech
    50:16 Trends in satellite manufacturing and lay of the land
    56:27 On-board propulsion systems
    58:58 Space-as-a-service
    01:01:05 Vision for Mu Space
    01:04:33 If James wasn't doing Mu Space, what would he do in space?
    01:06:25 Sci-Fi

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