How space tech is on the cusp of full commercialisation – Space DOTS founder Bianca Cefalo
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5.0 • 6 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Bianca Cefalo, co-founder of Space DOTS, discusses how the space tech industry in the UK and beyond is rapidly growing and ready for commercialisation. The engineer and CEO explains what it's like to be a woman in an industry dominated by men and encourages women to ignore the doubters and follow their engineering dreams.
Space DOTS is a British startup that offers in-space research and development and testing for the quality control of advanced materials. Cefalo co-founded the company in 2021 and it has since raised over £1m in investments and grants.
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| 0:00.0 | We are at the cusp of the full commercialization of space, so there is an inflection point at the moment. |
| 0:11.0 | There are many startups, businesses, rather than the big ones like burgeon that have a massive potential |
| 0:21.6 | distracting the launch industries. |
| 0:24.6 | As a matter of fact, we're just a speck of dust in the three lines of galaxies out there. |
| 0:40.0 | From the first time founders to the funds that back them, innovation needs different. |
| 0:45.7 | Our episode partner, HSBC Innovation Banking, is proud to accelerate growth for tech and |
| 0:51.6 | life science businesses, creating meaningful connections and opening |
| 0:55.3 | up a world of opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike. Discover more at www. |
| 1:01.5 | hsbc innovation banking.com slash EN dashGB.GB. Hello and welcome to the UKTN podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related. |
| 1:21.5 | And this week I'm joined by Bianca Jeffelow, the co-founder and CEO of Space Dots. Welcome, Bianca. Hello, Jane. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:31.1 | Now, if like me, you're old enough to remember the voiceover at the start of Star Trek, then the word |
| 1:36.4 | space needs to always be followed by the final frontier. But of course, now it's not the final frontier. |
| 1:42.1 | It's ripe for exploration. But first up, Bianca, explain what role space dox is going to play in this new open world of space. |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah. So at Space Thoughts, what we're doing is redefining the qualification for space materials that I clean space. |
| 2:00.0 | So basically, we position ourselves at the crossroad between qualification for space materials that are in space. |
| 2:01.0 | So basically we position ourselves at the crossroad between space tech and material |
| 2:06.9 | science. |
| 2:08.4 | And the way we're doing this is basically, so if you think about in space manufacturing and |
| 2:13.9 | where everything is going to be done in space, in space factories and everything else. |
| 2:18.8 | Obviously that's manufacturing, but the entire value chain also has testing, |
| 2:24.3 | qualification, quality insurance and everything else. |
| 2:27.3 | Now, before we move everything that we're doing on Earth in space, |
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