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🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Vice President of Engineering at Planet Labs, Kiruthika shares her transition from the precision-intensive environment of a radio astronomer to the dynamic realm of a startup, where she leads teams through the design of satellites' power, avionics, and communications sytems. She gives us a look into the unique world of satellite constellation management, and the Planet value of performance over density, as Planet CEO Will Marshall says.
What makes Planet Labs stand out in the space industry? The answer lies in the company's "agile aerospace" philosophy and their strategic projects. Discover how Kiruthika and her team navigate the complexities of satellite systems, the impact of Planet's acquisitions, and the development of their constellations. We also explore current and future trends that are poised to redefine the satellite industry.
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0:00.0 | I would say the biggest trend right now is probably all the development around large language models and artificial intelligence that is going to love you to really do queryable Earth. |
0:12.0 | Given a data set of Earth observation imagery, don't look at them, ask questions. |
0:18.0 | And you should be able to query it with similar search imagery as |
0:21.7 | you may have seen with the synthetic balloon detector example or text right and |
0:27.3 | and we are real we are up the cusp of making that happen. Welcome back to the new space |
0:38.0 | We've got to the world |
0:41.4 | Lift-off, we have a lift-off. |
0:45.5 | Welcome back to the New Space Vision podcast sponsored by LiveView, |
0:49.2 | where we discussed new space technology, finance and innovation with executive founders |
0:53.5 | and more exciting people from the startup and new space ecosystem. I'm innovation with executive founders and more exciting people |
0:54.7 | from the startup and new space ecosystem. I'm Stem Shivara and I'm Danesahel and together we are the |
1:00.1 | founders of the Earth Observation Company Life View and New Space Vision. Today we are super excited to welcome |
1:06.0 | Kiruthica Devaraj because she is the VP of Engineering at Planet. Planet, as you may know, is operating |
1:12.9 | the world's biggest Earth observation constellation. And today we're going to look a bit |
1:17.9 | behind the scenes, especially also on the technology side. So welcome, Kyrgyra. And yeah, basically, |
1:24.6 | how are you? And maybe you can introduce yourself to the audience. |
1:28.3 | Thank you, Sven, Daniel, for having me on the podcast. |
1:31.3 | It's really great to be here. |
1:33.3 | So I work at Planet Labs and some of your audience may know we are a satellite and data company. |
1:41.3 | So we are in San Francisco, |
1:44.3 | primarily San Francisco Bay Area, |
1:45.9 | but we have an office in Berlin |
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