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#11: The Bright Future of Radar Satellites (feat. Joerg F. Herrmann, SVP of Capella Space)

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NewSpaceVision

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4.04 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The NSV September Episode is all about radar satellites and its applications. We invited a very special guest who helped to shape and grow the SAR Satellite Industry in the 90s and 2000s in Germany like no other: Joerg F. Herrmann, former founding CEO of the TerraSAR-X services entity Infoterra, Sr. business development executive at Airbus Defense and now Sr. VP at Capella Space. From first endeavors to the first wave of commercialization of SAR. Join us for a conversation about the creation of Germany’s first Digital Elevation Model in early 2000 to TerraSAR and TandemSAR as well as differences of working for a U.S. start-up compared to his time in Germany, building the TerraSAR. We explore the question: Why is Germany currently lacking a private German SAR constellation with the ambition of Capella Space, Iceye, PredaSAR (U.S.) or Synspective (Japan) or a leading new space hardware startup? ...and even dare to ask: Is there an underutilization of SAR technology?

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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

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Ignition sequence of our energy and skills.

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Because that challenge is all that we're willing to accept.

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All engine women.

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Lift off. We have a lift All engine women. Lift-off.

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We have a lift-off.

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32 minutes past the hour.

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Lift-off on Apollo 11.

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Thank you very much, everyone, for tuning in to our next News Space Vision podcast episode.

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This podcast episode is with someone very special, Jirk Herrmann, Capello space and previously a lot of other space endeavors about which

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we're going to learn a little bit more in the next few minutes.

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Yirk Daniel and I met at a meetup in San Francisco at the end of last year.

0:47.8

While I was standing there and I talked to someone else.

0:50.3

I heard someone speaking to someone else with German accent and I thought, well,

0:53.9

we should maybe just talk about what brought him to San Francisco. And so someone speaking to someone else with German accent and I thought, well, we should

0:54.3

maybe just talk about what brought him to San Francisco. And so we started to talk and it was

0:59.1

credible what stories York was able to tell about the inception of commercial space here in Germany

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and the development of new space in Europe and around the world. And so we are very happy that

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