Cold Star Project

Sales Performance Team founder Nicholas Loise is back on the Cold Star Project because we have to have a conversation about founders. Why do founders stumble, and what is the antidote?   If you find yourself as a founder or CEO getting distracted, off target, and not achieving the goals you know you need to be reaching, listen in.   Nick Loise email at Sales Performance Team: nick@salesp...

Spaced Ventures co-founder Aaron Burnett is on the Cold Star Project to share how providing this platform for crowdsourced investment in space companies helps the industry grow. Host Jason Kanigan asks Aaron: Explain the value you believe you’re bringing to the space community with SV What was the experience of building the platform like? What have you learned and what is the most surprising thing...

What developments have there been in the Internet of Things with regards to the space industry? As smallsat and launch costs continue to fall, what promise does the IoT bring to space? Hub Urlings of the M2sat IoT Lab and Ceryx Projects is with host Jason Kanigan on the Cold Star Project to explain. We cover: what "Satellite IoT is" for the layperson, and what capabilities it brings for what user...

Nicholas Moran aka The Chieftain is World of Tanks' Director, Military Relations and technical advisor, and has been so for the past nine years. In an industry where advisors are typically discarded immediately after the game releases, this is astonishing longevity--and farsightedness on the part of the developer. Nicholas is also a military historian. Following his release of a video looking at t...

Bryne Hadnott has quite the resume...currently Image Processing Engineer for BlackSky; Past graduate student researcher at NASA JPL; Masters degree in Planetary Science at Johns Hopkins; Worked on doctorate at Cornell then Johns Hopkins; Research Assistant at the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics; and Undergraduate degree in Planetary Science at Washington University in St. Louis.  On th...

Dr. Moriba Jah, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, past navigator for many missions to Mars, and space situational awareness expert returns to the Cold Star Project. With host Jason Kanigan, Dr. Jah digs deeper into the challenges of space object identification, tracking and orbital prediction, including: Why is it a problem that satellite orbit pathing predictions assume a spheroid s...

Starting in Europe and ending in the USA, Istvan Lorincz and the other co-founders of Morpheus Space have been on a long startup journey. We discuss: their fundraising efforts what has stood out as a key but little-mentioned factor in developing a startup the realistic expectations founders should have when deciding to form a startup.    Morpheus Space website: https://www.morpheus-space...

Major Bruce Gordon (ret), 130+ combat mission pilot and electronic warfare instructor, returns to the Cold Star Project. This time, we're looking at how EW developed through the Cold War. What does the electromagnetic spectrum look like as a diagram? How are the various frequency bands used? Join us and find out.   First lecture on the history of EW: https://coldstarproject.com/yts02e64bruceg...

Electronic Warfare instructor and combat fighter pilot Bruce Gordon, author of Spirit of Attack, is on the Cold Star Project. With host Jason Kanigan, Major Gordon shares his personal experience meeting RV Jones, a history of EW, and some detail of the Battle of the Beams.   Spirit of Attack Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SpiritofAttack/   (order the book on Amazon, or send $20...

VP Global Space Policy of Astroscale US, Charity Weeden is on the Cold Star Project to share her background and the organization's vision for space. Orbital environmental management and in-space logistics are two key areas Astroscale is developing capabilities and influence in. With host Jason Kanigan, Charity discusses: the vision, mission and organization of Astroscale how the technical, busines...

United Space Structures CEO and founder Bill Kemp is on the Cold Star Project to share his plans to create real estate via structures for living and working in on the Moon. Safe inside lava tubes, USS will engineer space structures so that people can survive there. Host Jason Kanigan asks Bill: What kind of business model does United Space Structures have? What kind of tenants do you want to have...

Space Products and Innovation (SPiN) co-founder Ran Qedar is on the Cold Star Project to share his experience taking his space startup through the Techstars accelerator. Host Jason Kanigan asks Ran: What problem did potential customers in the space industry tell you they were experiencing that lead to a prototype product? SPiN's tagline is “Build a satellite like Lego”. This seems to match up pret...

Barclay's Bank UK Start-Up Entrepreneur 2018 for the progress and achievements of Oxford Space Systems, and founder of Oxford Dynamics, Mike Lawton joins us on the Cold Star Project. With host Jason Kanigan, Mike discusses the challenges of developing early stage space startups, including: Other than the obvious lifeblood of cash, what other measures have you noticed as important in early stage, h...

Space lawyer Christopher Johnson from the Secure World Foundation is back on the Cold Star Project, and we're looking at what he has learned this year. Christopher has hosted several Moon Dialog Research Salons and gotten tremendous public input and engagement on space issues. With host Jason Kanigan, he discusses: What he learned from the salons What differences he noted in platforms used, behavi...

Telecan Space founder Jean Paul Carnicer is on the Cold Star Project, and our topic is pitfalls in spacecraft bus engineering. With host Jason Kanigan, Paul answers: What’s the most important thing to keep in mind when designing a spacecraft bus? Is there something people NOT engineering the bus tend to forget or overlook when they’re coming up with design requirements? Who are the courses listed...

Angolan ground station operator, and now Project Manager intern at Airbus, Eldrige de Melo is on the Cold Star Project. With host Jason Kanigan we discuss how space ground stations operate. Eldrige answers: what do we mean by the term “ground stations”? Is this all about communications, or does it include passive operations like image gathering? how do ground stations operate? What kind of systems...

Head of Strategy and Managing Director Venture Capital at OHB Group since 2013 Egbert van der Veen is on the Cold Star Project. Prior to this role, Egbert was Project Lead at the German Aerospace Center for 4 years, working with DLR, ESA, EC and writing advisory reports on technology development trends. Continuing our discussion with investors who fund space companies, host Jason Kanigan asks: You...

2X past DARPA Program Manager Jess Sponable is on the Cold Star Project to share his experiences and aspirations in the space industry. With host Jason Kanigan, our topics cover the development of reusable launch technology, a colorful character (#3 to walk on the Moon) named Pete Conrad and Jess' interactions with him, and DARPA. Our conversation was submitted to and approved for public release b...

Yara Journeys founder Annabelle Beckwith is on the Cold Star Project to share her experience and vision of helping founders and their leadership teams move their businesses from $3 to $10 million (pounds as well!). With host Jason Kanigan she discusses:   Who is your ideal client? Why do you want to work with them specifically? What indicators of values, culture, KPIs do you believe are most...

Finsophy PBC Founder & CEO Jason Aspiotis is on the Cold Star Project. With host Jason Kanigan, he's sharing his vision for retail investors to invest in the space economy while using banking services they would already be using anyway. Jason answers:  What is your long-term view for Space economy growth? What are the driving factors for economic growth?  What is the role of the reta...

President emerita of Explore Mars Inc. & CEO of Explore Mars Europe Artemis Westenberg joins host Jason Kanigan on the Cold Star Project. What's the truth about the American public's interest in going to Mars? Why should we go there at all? How is private industry likely to get involved?  We dig into the political and technological issues necessary to overcome to go to Mars, and what Expl...

Agrippa Consulting president and TEDx speaker Paul Rulkens is on the Cold Star Project to talk about high performance culture. What does it take to achieve, and how can space founders create one? Host Jason Kanigan asks Paul: How has your education and experience as a process engineer affected your views on business and company culture/change? Other than Jay Abraham, who has a different take on th...

Space Habitats founder Jannene Kyytsonen appears on the Cold Star Project to share her vision of what it's going to take to build communities in space. We cover many ideas and requirements you may not have yet considered. Host Jason Kanigan asks:  You got into space from outside the field… your education and experience is in arts and business. How do you apply those to space? You’re a member...

Axa XL's Global Head of Space, Chris Kunstadter, is on the Cold Star Project, and we're looking at the future of satellite insurance. With host Jason Kanigan, Chris discusses: why and how he picked a profession allowing him to make money at something he loves to talk about all day how he got into the space insurance business what space insurance products his team focuses on, and what they avoid th...

VP of Operations for the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC) Erin Miller is on the Cold Star Project to discuss this new organization and her role in it. Space ISAC is part of the US National Cybersecurity Center. With host Jason Kanigan, Erin answers: What’s your mission? Your field is acronym-heavy…let’s begin with what an ISAC is...then can you share the need for this Pub...