Space Business Podcast #119 - Luke Fischer, SkyFi: EO data

Space Business Podcast # 125 - Ankit Anand, Kicksky

This week we are talking about KickSky, the first incubator for Indian space startups, which is having the demo day of its first cohort on 8-May. I am talking to Ankit Anand, Partner of Riceberg Ventures and a co-founder of KickSky. We talk about why the timing is right for an Indian space incubator, what the incubation program looks like, and many other things. For full disclosure, E2MC, the space venture fund where I am partner, is also part of KickSky. If you have any interest in Indian space, don’t miss this episode!

If you are:

- an Indian startup interested in applying to KickSky - interested in becoming a mentor at KickSky - interested in joining KickSky's investor network please go to https://www.kicksky.space

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro 2:19 Ankit's background and the Indian space ecosystem 13:34 Space Sector in India - Government & commercial 17:34 Kicksky's structure and program 26:22 Mentoring 31:16 Demo-day and practical examples 37:12 Experience of being an incubator 40:01 Future plans 43:08 Apply to Kicksky 43:37 Sci-fi

Space Business Podcast #124 - Johannes Torpe: A Designer domesticating Space

Johannes Torpe is a well-known Danish designer who, among many other things, was the Creative Director at Bang & Olufsen, and once owned a space-themed night club called NASA. He is passionate about what he calls “domesticating space” – bringing space closer to people at large, beyond the existing space community. We met at Spacecom in Orlando earlier this year and finally had a chance to schedule a podcast episode to talk about all this. Enjoy!

https://www.johannestorpe.com/

Golden space suit event: https://www.designindaba.com/videos/conference-talks/danish-designer-johannes-torpe-power-design-create-universes

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• SPACE ECONOMY BOOK: Raphael's fully revised introductory book on the Space economy, "To Infinity" - https://a.co/d/6jIQ2LO
• Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
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The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics.

Timestamps

0:00 Intro 2:36 Johannes's background 6:05 Golden space suit entry 11:15 Connecting people to the Space Renaissance 18:42 Domesticating Space 21:50 The Space Mountain Case and Space "Retroism" 27:22 Potential ways of inspiring people 31:06 Hotels & Resorts 34:15 "Edutainment" 37:07 NASA Nightclub 42:36 Space & the arts 47:57 Current space-related projects 53:49 Sci-fi

Space Business Podcast #123 - José Manuel Rodríguez, PLD Space: Launch

PLD Space is a Spanish launch startup. Last October, they successfully completed a suborbital test flight of their Miura-1 rocket. We talk about that flight, their future plans on the way to orbital launch, the launch market at large, and many other things, with my guest, PLD’s CFO, José Manuel Rodríguez. Enjoy!

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• SPACE ECONOMY BOOK: Raphael's fully revised introductory book on the Space economy, "To Infinity" - https://a.co/d/6jIQ2LO
• Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
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The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro 2:20 Elevator Pitch 6:05 European access to space 9:17 Business Model 13:17 Specs 18:10 Rocket engines 19:20 Production capacity 20:54 Scaling up 23:41 Europe vs. other markets 25:50 Customers 28:50 Gaining trust with customers 33:27 User guide 35:40 Launch market 39:10 Sovereign launch 42:08 Spaceports 44:18 Orbits 47:00 Future milestones 49:45 Team 53:38 Other interesting space activities 55:30 Sci-Fi

Space Business Podcast #122 - Alexandra Vidyuk, Space Ambition & Aloniq VC

Space Ambition is a very popular space blog on Substack, with over 11000 subscribers. Its founder Alexandra Vidyuk is our guest this week. She is also a space tech investor at Aloniq VC. We talk about both of her roles. Enjoy!

Space ambition blog: https://spaceambition.substack.com/

Aloniq VC: https://www.aloniq.com/

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• SPACE ECONOMY BOOK: Raphael's fully revised introductory book on the Space economy, "To Infinity" - https://a.co/d/6jIQ2LO
• Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
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The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro 2:08 Alex's activities in the space sector 3:10 Space Ambition origins 5:48 Transitioning into the space sector 7:23 What is Space Ambition? 9:04 Topics 11:42 "Spotlights" 14:30 Insights from Spotlights 17:30 Women in Space 20:20 Dream guest 21:61 Insights of space tech investors 22:58 Other space media 25:13 Getting into space investing 27:28 Other deep tech areas vs. space 29:33 Interesting areas in space 31:33 Investor perspectives 35:53 The Singapore Space Ecosystem 38:58 Sci-fi

Space Business Podcast #121 - Aaron Kemmer, Max Space: Inflatables

Inflatable space modules is what we are talking about in this episode, and that is Max Space’s product, a company that just came out more publicly at Space Symposium. My guest for the episode is CEO & co-founder Aaron Kemmer, who some of you may remember from his previous role as a co-founder of the in-space manufacturing company Made in Space. Aaron and I talk about his motivation to set up Max Space, and how their inflatables can be used for example as habitats, research labs, manufacturing sites and even as sports and entertainment venues in space. For full disclosure: Max Space is a portfolio company of E2MC, the space venture capital fund founded by our host Raphael Roettgen.

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• SPACE ECONOMY BOOK: Raphael's fully revised introductory book on the Space economy, "To Infinity" - https://a.co/d/6jIQ2LO
• Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
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Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:26 Max Space 3:32 Rationale for starting Max Space 7:22 Inflatables 9:26 Space in space 13:13 In-space experiments 15:51 Business model 18:13 Customization for use cases 21:13 User guide 22:27 Life support and space hazards 26:48 End of life planning 30:18 Inflatables beyond Earth orbit 35:50 Volume 36:44 Fitting windows & other structures 40:00 Inflating 41:00 First module in space 43:12 Major to-dos and milestones 46:25 Regulatory process 47:52 Long-term vision 51:20 Other exciting things in the space industry 55:07 Sci-fi