He said, is this a good idea?

And can you raise 500,000 to cede it, fly to Russia, meet Las Cosmos, and see if we get some traction?

I said, I think it's a great idea, and I can.

And so I typed up a two-page letter of intent in my basement here in Vancouver with the Russian Space Agency. it was we'll give you the cameras you do the launch the insulation the power the downlink and then and then we'll split the date of course and I had no idea what I knew that meant but it was very opportunistic. Hello and welcome to the new space. We have a new space.

We have a lift-off.

We have a lift-off.

We have a lift-off.

Hello and welcome to the News Space Vision podcast, where we discussed the technology, economy, and dreams of innovation and new space with executives, founders, and other exciting people from the startup and new space ecosystem.

I'm Sven Pshyvara.

And I'm Danishezl and together we are the founders of Liveview and New Space Vision.

Today we are excited to welcome Scott Larsen.

He is the co-founder and CEO of Space Alpha Insights, which unsurprisingly provides insights on Earth with imagery from space.

Yeah, Scott, you are a seasoned entrepreneur and we are very excited about your insights on the new space movement.

So, I mean, first of all, Scott, what is space Alpha Insights doing?

Yeah, first off, thanks very much for having me.

Appreciate the interest in what we're doing.

Space Alpha is a Earth observation company using building out what we think is the world's

leading synthetic aperture radar technology.

And then taking the data that we're able to generate from synthetic aperture radar, and to your

early point, use it to develop algorithms and information that allows us to try to predict the future.

Yeah.

But you not only have been, and you're not only are the founder and CEO of Space Alpha EnSys, but you are generally a pioneer

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