#71 Payam Banazadeh, Capella Space

My guest this week is the founder & CEO of another prominent new space company – Payam Banazadeh from Capella Space. Capella is a remote sensing company that is using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology. Don’t worry – we will explain what SAR is during the episode. The important summary: it allows you to see at night and through cloud cover. You can imagine that has interesting and important use cases. Payam will take us through those and many other things about Capella. Enjoy!

Capella's job board: https://www.capellaspace.com/about-us/careers/

Opportunities to learn more about space business:

• Check out the new edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
• Raphael is designing a new, live-taught course. Join the mailing list to get updates and early access: https://jfx8zhjodpz.typeform.com/to/t0VSuhVD
• Raphael's introductory book on the space economy recently came out in its Portuguese translation: https://www.amazon.com/Para-Cima-Economia-Espacial-Portuguese-ebook/dp/B09X5WV3WC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ROKTHNSCZCRI

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:50 Elevator pitch

4:07 Origin story

8:00 MH370

10:05 Geographic coverage

14:58 General use cases

19:10 Pricing

21:11 Government use cases

25:02 Commercial use cases

29:40 Cool things Capella detected

32:05 Hostile behavior

35:44 Satellite manufacturing & design

39:22 Sales process

46:27 Consolidation

48:52 Vision

50:49 Financing

55:27 Wrap-up: hiring, other things to do in the space sector, sci-fi