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Mendler: Northwood is building a shared ground network for the space economy
“We're building the ground network for the industrialized space economy. You know, we view it kind of as the third critical pillar of infrastructure for space where you need to get things into space on rockets. You need to have things to put into space, which a…”
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.”
Mendler: Higher orbit ground station shortfall is a major Northwood driver
“Like there's really a shortfall of ground assets in the higher orbits actually. And so that's something that we didn't enter into the business planning on, but that's something that has been like a very large driver of activity in our business over the past, l…”
Mendler: Northwood designs all components in-house while outsourcing early manufacturing
“We are a vertically integrated company. Like we design all of the different components. We have those outsourced and then you know, brought in. We're not you know, like making our own circuit boards at this point in time.”
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.”
Mendler: Northwood is developing tech to track changing beam widths dynamically
“And we're excited through you know, the tech that we're developing to be able to track the beam with us. As it changes for more dynamic trajectories.”