#4: ICEYE - The Eye in the Sky (feat. Pekka Laurila, CFO & Co-Founder of ICEYE)

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4.0 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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NewSpaceVision Podcast #4 with Pekka Laurila CFO & Co-Founder of ICEYE What a start into 2018. ICEYE, the VC backed NewSpace StartUp from Finnland, just launched their next generation radar satellite on a PSLV into earth's orbit. With their novel SAR technology, they want to change the earth observation market and are off for a good start. In November 2017 we had the chance to speak to Pekka Laurila, the Co-Founder and CFO of the company, about their business, technology and how they started. He also answers the question why they had to rent an icebreaker in the early days of their company! We hope you like it! Please subscribe and rate podcast on soundcloud or itunes. We are happy for your feedback on Twitter (twitter.com/newspacevision). Show Notes: - Aalto-1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aalto-1 - Tekes Funding: https://www.businessfinland.fi/ - Horizon 2020: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/ - ICEYE: https://www.iceye.com/ - Reaktor SpaceLab: https://reaktorspace.com/ The NewSpaceVision Team. Recording: Daniel Seidel (twitter.com/Daninho89) & Sven Przywarra (twitter.com/SvenPrzy) Cut: Amin Shahsavar

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0:00.0	We choose to go to the moon because it is there.
0:05.0	Space is there and we're going to climb it.
0:08.0	And the moon and the planets are there.
0:10.0	And new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.
0:13.0	All right, welcome to the New Space Vision podcast.
0:17.0	In this podcast series, we aim to tell the stories behind the emerging European new space ecosystem.
0:23.7	This is our fourth installment, and you can find previous and future podcasts on our iTunes or SoundCloud channels.
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0:41.1	Okay, so today we have with us Pecca Laurila, co-founder and CTO of the Finnish micro-satellite
0:47.5	radar startup, ISI. This conversation was recorded in late 2017.
0:53.7	Exactly. Before we come to the podcast and the interesting story of I's Eye, we just
0:58.0	wanted to say that there's a conference coming up soon. On the 27th of April in Berlin,
1:03.0	it's called New Space Vision Conference and the underlying theme is space is affecting every
1:09.0	industries. We have speakers from AWS SAP,, buyer and a lot of new space companies.
1:14.7	So we hope you're interested and you can find a lot of more information on our website.
1:19.3	But now let's start with further ado.
1:21.6	Yeah.
1:22.6	So happy to record our next podcast.
1:24.5	We have the AISI CFO at our table here. And a funny story with Pecker we met
1:30.4	and after our event from the European space, we're in Estonia. And we helped them actually to come
1:35.6	back to the hotel because it's mobile. It was empty. And yeah, and we had a nice chat before this
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