Space Industry
topic on 6 shows · 9 statements across 8 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
American Optimist
Sourcery
Catalyst
the a16z Podcast
TBPN
9 statements about Space Industry, every show
Beck: The biggest commercial application of space hasn't been conceived yet
“I think, you know, my hot take would be, I think, the biggest thing to be done in space hasn't even been thought about, let alone talked about. So I think we're at the very, very beginning of the whole process. If you want to, you know, make an analogy here, i…”
Beck: Communications represents the space industry's largest total addressable market
“What is the biggest TAM in the space industry? It's comms.”
Mendler: The space economy will consolidate into dominant infrastructure platforms
“If I were to, like, look forward into the space industry, I think you know, if you analogize to the internet, like, you have a couple of kind of platform infrastructure plays that really wind up becoming enmeshed across the internet. And, you know, it's not li…”
Lapsa: First-stage reusability scaled annual launch capacity from 20 to 150
“In the last few years, the industry has shown the ability to reuse the first stage, which has been transformative. It allowed companies to scale from maybe a dozen or so, 10 to 20 launches per year, now to that 150 number.”
Cinnamon: No Space Venture Is Purely Commercial, Not Even Starlink
“So I have a slightly contrarian take on this. I don't think anything is pure play commercial. Nothing. Not even Starlink.”
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”
Mendler: Space communication will transition to software-defined global networks
“How the space industry is going to evolve in terms of communication, going from booking an antenna, like you book a science telescope to, Having the outcomes through a global network where you can you can have a lot of observability and control into that netwo…”