Northwood Space

“We're gonna be, you know, running mission ops out of what used to be a movie theater”

“We want to basically like be an index for space where whatever use case winds up panning out for space, we're able to support it.”

“We tend to co-locate with, you know, optimizing for places that already have those things readily available. So data centers, for example, that's a spot that's really great for a co-location because they already have That infrastructure in place. And they also…”

“I do think you know, Steve Jobs isn't the name that's mentioned as much anymore. Well, maybe that's an understatement. But I think, like, there's a lot of emphasis on, on the Elon mode, which I think is true, but also I think, like, the things that I really re…”

“If we want to accomplish serving the Stanford dish while serving a lot of other things, we probably would build something that's more modular. They could add up in the sum of its parts to the kind of performance that's required for that operation. But in the m…”

“They are, they're monetizing bits and the customers that are buying their bits are the ones that need more reliability and flexibility than maybe like SpaceX driven architecture.”

“We're taking a bit more of the SpaceX approach where they tend towards proliferation. So we have a bunch of sites and we have that diversity of sites so that we can make sure if any one of those sites goes down, you know, not necessarily for some kind of malic…”

“Fortunately for us, the licensing has been relatively easy to work with in the different regions that we focused on, because most countries are open for business, you know. Like, they want to have more space business.”

“I think like it's helpful to have founders that are kind of a step ahead of you so that you can kind of understand what are the problems that are gonna be around the corner.”

“We only bring in house what actually turns into a pain point on timeline.”

“With space today, you have like much lower throughput. You generally have challenging reliability requirements. And so like people tend to solve for that in really expensive ways, like creating a ton of diversity of sites and redundancy, which becomes extremel…”

“So all of that translates to a lot more networking on the ground, which today is super expensive, and it is also really long to deliver. And so both, like, the cost and the time horizon that they need to address that against, think about, like, You know, 18 mo…”

“Like I think with investors in space today, and I think it's really the right thing. It's not just about bankrolling a vision that takes 10 years to materialize.”

“We've been able to like actually make space grade performance out of Standard high volume cellular components.”

“So we actually think about how we manufacture and deploy those antennas not incorporates all the way back to the original design principles of what we build. How can we make things that fit in small form factors and that can, you know, go out and be shipped to…”

“And it's designed to support hundreds of antennas in production. So a lot more antennas going to a lot more parts of the world and supporting a lot more space traffic.”