#8: How Spire Global jump-started its Satellite Empire (feat. Jeroen Cappaert, CTO & Co-Founder of Spire)

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🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Jeroen Cappaert, CTO and Co-Founder of Spire Global joins us to talk about how the data analytics company jump-started its satellite empire. We talk about how Spire acts as a New Space role model with a fully vertical integration and end-to-end thinking. Jeroen shares insights about from their nanosatellite constellation, funding rounds, the company’s growth processes and tech team organization to work at high frequency, their most challenging satellite launches and where he sees the differences between the U.S and the E.U. in terms of New Space.

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0:00.0	We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
0:08.1	10.9. Ignition sequence of our energy of our energies and skills. Because that challenge is long that we're willing to accept.
0:19.6	All engine women. Lift we are unwilling to call.
0:21.6	Lift-off.
0:22.6	We have a lift-off.
0:23.6	32 minutes past the hour.
0:26.6	Lift-off on Apollo 11.
0:27.6	Okay, welcome everyone to the next episode of NewsPersition podcast.
0:31.6	Today we have a very special guest, Jerome, the CTO from Spire, a real new space giant.
0:42.3	Jerome and I, we already talked in the past, and I thought it would be the perfect guest for a new podcast.
0:43.9	And also something really nice, I found something really nice today on my computer, because
0:49.2	when I did a little bit of research about Spire, I found out that they were a result of the
0:56.0	ArduSat program.
0:57.7	And then I remembered, well, that rings a bell.
1:00.7	Ah, well, I should maybe dig in one of my old hard drives.
1:06.6	What I found was a word document from 2012 with some of the scientific or payload ideas for audio
1:14.3	certs.
1:15.3	So I am very thrilled and very excited to have Jerome on the podcast.
1:20.7	Maybe can you tell us a little bit about what Spire does?
1:25.7	Yeah, sure.
1:26.7	So Spire is a space-driven data company and data services, data products company.
1:33.3	You know, we sometimes joke that we're just a data company.
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