Translation of Technologies into Space
Listen in on this panel with Chirag Parikh, Senior Director, Azure Space at Microsoft, Mark Matossian, co-founder at Solstar. Jason Ballard, co-founder and CEO at ICON, Jordan Noone, co-Founder and CTO at Embedded Ventures, and Lt Gen John Shaw, Deputy at U.S. Space Command as they discuss how we can translate the technology we have on Earth into space.
What you’ll find out
- What challenges do the U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command face?
- How is Embedded Ventures changing the VC community around deep tech?
- How is ICON translating the technology they have on earth into building structures on the moon?
Key takeaways
- “We want to be that example for the venture capital community… to get those companies off the ground, get them working with the DoD, get them prioritizing national security solutions and use our team here to de-risk those companies to the point that the rest of the venture ecosystem will invest in them and get them through that commercialization hump.” — Jordan Noone, Embedded Ventures
- “The government contract for a startup can be a super important validation, but the perspective of the VC community is fundamentally oriented still towards its scale and commercial markets.” — Mark Matossian, Solstar
- “Mars has an atmosphere and more gravity and things like that. But already just in the concept and in early construction and demonstration phases of the technology, a lot of work is cross-pollinating back into our work on Earth because space is the double black diamond of autonomy, of resilience, or repairability, radiation, hardening, all these things get turned up to 11 when you go away from planet Earth.” — Jason Ballard, ICON
Who you’ll hear from
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