#62 Peter Platzer, Spire

Our guest this episode is one of the best-known entrepreneurs in New Space, Peter Platzer, founder and CEO of Spire Global. We cover a lot of ground in our conversation, including talking about commercial space in general and about Spire’s new space-as-service offering. You don’t want to miss this one!

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

2:19 The Luxembourg space ecosystem

4:50 Spire origin story

11:44 Drivers of New Space

19:26 Current state of remote sensing

22:43 Customers

26:00 Lessons from the computer industry

28:32 Call to arms for potential entrepreneurs

31:55 Rapid fire question on selected trends

37:16 Space as a service

55:54 Sci-Fi