#36: Crafting the Next Generation of Climate Monitoring Satellites (feat. Jonny Dyer, Co-Founder & CEO, Muon Space)

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Technology

4 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re proud to feature a unique story. Our guest interned at both Blue Origin and SpaceX in the early 2000s, later becoming Skybox’s (now Planet Labs' Terra Bella) 3rd employee, after his professor encouraged the would-be founders to start the company following a university competition.

It’s not surprising he’s been at the forefront of space innovation, considering he's been passionate about space since the age of six, citing an obsession with rockets. “I probably scared my mom to death many times, blowing stuff up in the garage, trying to mix rocket fuels and launch things.”

If you guessed Jonny Dyer, you were right. Consistently at the forefront of space innovation, Jonny is now the CEO of Muon Space, which is building satellites tailored for monitoring the climate on Earth. With their first launch in 2023 on SpaceX’s Transporter-8, and two more scheduled this year, Muon is poised to break barriers in satellite imaging as a whole.

Our conversation spanned the length of Jonny’s career but focused on Muon Space’s strategy and value proposition, and Jonny’s pragmatic and profound reflections on the Earth observation ecosystem. Don’t miss it!

Jonny:

https://twitter.com/jonnydyer?lang=en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonny-dyer-1870085/

Muon:

https://www.muonspace.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/muon-space/

https://twitter.com/MuonSpace

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0:00.0	Every day seemed like the company could survive or fail. Like there was this kind of everybody
0:04.8	felt the same sort of need to succeed and that like every decision that was being made, every
0:10.4	test that we ran, you know, every day that we spent on something could could spell the difference
0:14.8	between the company working or failing. I think I learned a lot from that experience and also
0:19.9	appreciated how important
0:21.3	that sense of urgency and speed is to probably any organization, but certainly a startup is trying to
0:26.5	survive.
0:26.9	All right down, lift off, the clock is started.
0:33.6	Speed two, one.
0:36.6	We chose to come to the world. Limit off. We have a lift-off.
0:40.2	We have a lift-off.
0:43.1	Hello and welcome to the New Space Vision podcast sponsored by LiveEO, where we discuss
0:47.1	new space technology, finance and innovation with executives, founders and more exciting people
0:51.3	from the startup and new space ecosystem.
0:53.5	I'm Sam Shavara, and I'm Danes'm Danny Seidel and together we are the founders of the Earth
0:57.1	Observation Company live here in New Space Vision. Today we've got Johnny
1:00.5	Dyer co-founder and co-CE the CEO of MUNE space. MUN is building revolutionary
1:05.1	sensors and small sets to dramatically enhance climate monitoring on Earth.
1:09.2	Welcome to the show, Johnny.
1:11.1	Thanks for having me, guys.
1:12.1	So I think this one needs a bit time, right?
1:15.6	So I've looked into your CV and I think you may be one of the most interesting people in the tech space.
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