Ground Stations

topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 2 episodes

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a16z Insight
Boyle: Low Earth Orbit Faces a Critical Ground Station Shortage
“We do not have enough ground stations to get data back to Earth as quickly as we need to. And given that low Earth orbit has just been, I would say, you know, saturated by payloads in the last several years, particularly because the cost of launch has come dow…”
Katherine Boyle Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 30:57 Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
TBPN Disclosure
Mendler: Northwood Space aims to build 500 ground station sites near-term
“So our kind of you know, sub near term goal is 500 sites.”
Bridgit Mendler Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 4:19 Building Northwood and a ground station network for satellites | Bridget Mendler on TBPN April 23rd
TBPN Insight
Mendler: Individually booking ground antennas cannot scale with the space industry
“As the space industry has been scaling it's not really a sustainable model to think of, like, as you're needing to coordinate, you know, tens or hundreds of different sites to think about that individual booking and coordination”
Bridgit Mendler Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 5:58 Building Northwood and a ground station network for satellites | Bridget Mendler on TBPN April 23rd
TBPN Disclosure
Mendler: Northwood avoids concrete pads to eliminate ground station permitting delays
“One advantage of the way that we're building our systems is we don't need to lay like a concrete pad, which can add Weeks to months to your timeframe, especially when you need to like do permitting and all that.”
Bridgit Mendler Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 15:25 Building Northwood and a ground station network for satellites | Bridget Mendler on TBPN April 23rd

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