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Mendler: Northwood achieves space-grade performance using standard cellular components
“We've been able to like actually make space grade performance out of Standard high volume cellular components.”
Mendler: Operators cannot reliably control dynamically maneuvering spacecraft
“All of those use cases where spacecraft are moving dynamically around in new ways in the space environment. They basically just don't have a solution for how to connect and control that spacecraft.”
Mendler: Government customers treat ground systems as an afterthought
“For, you know, a government customer segment they tend to procure their spacecraft and their ground systems separately. So space systems were the major focus for a long time. And ground segment was kind of just the afterthought.”
Mendler: Space networking infrastructure hasn't been updated since the 1990s
“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…”
Mendler: Northwood HQ designed to produce hundreds of antennas
“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.”
Mendler: Traditional ground networking requires operators to plan 18 months ahead
“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…”
Mendler: Extraterrestrial life will statistically eventually collide with humanity
“I mean, statistically, I kind of have, like, the boring answer, but just, like, statistically, yes, I feel like there is other life out there and it's just, you know, a matter of probabilities that will eventually Collide with us in some form.”