#34: Making the Software Satellites are Built On (feat. Yuk Chi Chan, Co-Founder & CEO of Charter)

NewSpaceVision

Technology

4 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

An investor's guide to earth observation:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel-seidel-979524137_i-wrote-an-investors-guide-to-earth-observation-activity-7117028884901949441-Wo61?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Yuk’s succes was not simple - not unlike his journey. Yuk used to be an officer in the Singapore army, as the head of maintenence and recovery operations of its armored and track vehicles.

“… It was a great honor and privilege… where else on Earth are you going to find a 21 year old reponsible for a 100 million dollar technology portfolio?”

He then went on to go to law school & specialized in space, later joining a company that would use an electrodyanmic tether as a propulsion unit to station-keep in low earth orbit. But when that company went under, he used the reason for its failure to inspire a new venture: Charter.

Charter is building Ubiks, a logisitics platform tailored to the process of building space systems.

“It takes over the moment you’ve arrived at your initial stable design, and now you need to put the meat to the metal and actually build the thing.”

Discover how Yuk got into space law following his position in the army, the challenges he faced in his first company, and how that led him to secure Techstars funding for Charter with its co-founder.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone and as usual thanks for tuning in. Before we get into the episode we know it's been a while.
0:07.3	Finding timeframes that work for everyone can be quite the challenge and you also have to run a
0:12.1	company with more than 100 people. However we can see our listener numbers and our analytics and that
0:17.2	really makes it worth every time. So thank you so much for sticking around and continuing to tune in to the stories we work hard to show.
0:24.6	It's a pleasure and a privilege to get to do this.
0:27.6	Our podcast also had a big influence on an article I wrote during my time on the Silicon Valley this month.
0:32.6	It's about the Earth Observation ecosystem and it's called an investor's guide to Earth observation.
0:38.1	It was even recommended by the former NASA administrator Dan Golden and many more people.
0:42.4	So check out the link in the description if you want to read it.
0:45.5	But now about this episode.
0:48.0	This one features the CEO of a tech star spec startup that has just started to roll out demos
0:53.1	of its logistics software used for
0:55.2	building satellites. But before this, he was an army officer managing millions of dollars
1:00.1	of its equipment. So how did he end up in space? The answer is actually a bit shocking.
1:05.6	One note, unfortunately, the guest already has some issues around the first 15 minutes and
1:10.1	is later fixed.
1:11.3	We hope you understand and it doesn't affect your listening experience.
1:14.4	Our podcast producer Gabriel tried his best to keep everything understandable.
1:19.0	Enough from me.
1:20.0	Thanks again and enjoy the episode. Hello, a lift-off. The clock is turned.
1:28.3	We have a lift-off. We have a lift-off. We have a lift-off.
1:36.5	Hello and welcome to the News Space Vision podcast, sponsored by Lifeview, where we discuss
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