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Space Business Podcast #86 Dan Katz, Orbital Sidekick, Hyperspectral Earth Observation

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Dan Katz is the co-founder and CEO of Orbital Sidekick, a San Francisco-based company deploying a constellation of hyperspectral remote sensing satellites. Among other things, I talk to Dan about the capabilities and use cases of this exciting technology. Enjoy!

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    Timestamps

    0:00 Intro

    2:14 Elevator Pitch
    3:55 What is Hyperspectral Earth Observation?
    10:16 Multispectral vs. Hyperspectral vs. ... Ultraspectral(?) 
    14:40 The upper bounds of spectral resolution
    18:55 Operating at night time and under cloud cover
    22:43 Data and onboard processing
    27:15 Business Model
    30:50 Coverage
    31:52 Resolution
    36:28 Pipeline leaks as a use case
    40:14 Orbital Sidekick's satellites
    45:43 Selling to non-space customers
    48:37 Vision for the company
    52:42 Origin story
    56:05 Space trends
    58:00 Sci-Fi

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