Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Another dipping of our toes into an adjacent tech space that we cover now and then, but don't really

know all that much about another episode where I learn more and hopefully you learn more.

And speaking of spaces, we're talking about space, space tech, the final frontier of

tech.

Bill Gattle is the president for space and intelligence Systems at Harris Corp.

We're going to talk today about the state of the space industry, how soon will space tourism

be a thing, and we're going to talk about a revolution in space tech that I knew nothing about.

Small satellites or small-sats.

Minaturization and Moore's Law comes for all of

Harris Corp.

Bill Gattle of Harris Corp.

Bill I believe you've had experience all across the the space industry for like a couple decades now or so.

Can we start by just setting the stage of the industry?

From the outside, I guess reading, you know, just headlines and things like that. I feel like there's

been the surge of privatization over the last several years and maybe that's true more true in the

U.S. than in other countries but generally is the space industry, has it been going private or is that

just me from the outside not knowing that it's always been sort of mostly private? So it's the last decade is private. So it's, the last decade is probably the most extraordinary decade we've ever seen in both the commercial, as well as the government space industry.

So the acceleration we've seen is on both sides. And there's a couple reasons for it.

It's probably one of the fastest growing industries

in the US.

You saw a lot of budgets coming in right now.

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