Cold Star Project

Buy Then Build author Walker Deibel is on the Cold Star Project, and host Jason Kanigan is asking some tough questions. Rather than building a business from scratch, Walker recommends buying an existing business with a proven market that's interested in what you want to sell. We discuss:  What Walker says when people have the belief that you must have lots of cash available to be able to buy...

Past Deep Space Industries CEO Daniel Faber today runs a company called OrbitFab. As a pioneer of space mining and resources development, what is Dan doing now? Kickstarting the next massive new space economy by creating "Gas stations in space", that's what! With host Jason Kanigan of the Cold Star Project, Daniel Faber discusses: how he got into asteroid mining as a business, and what the process...

David Barnhart is the Director of the Space Engineering Research Center at the University of Southern California; CEO and co-founder of Arkisys, and a former DARPA program manager. On this episode of the Cold Star Project, we're looking at David's history of robotic concepts in satellite construction. With host Jason Kanigan, David Barnhart explains: how he helped develop satellite design-synthesi...

Head of Sales & Marketing for CubeSpace Benoit Chamot is on the Cold Star Project, and with host Jason Kanigan we're looking at attitude determination and control systems (ADCS) for satellites. We discuss:   how Benoit earned Masters degrees from both Lausanne and MIT, and the projects involved   the critical ADCS system for satellites, and the components they're made of such as sun...

Dennis Wingo, Founder & CEO of Skycorp Inc., has a lot of wisdom to share about the space industry. He's the author of “Moonrush: Improving Life on Earth with the Moon's Resources”, and calls himself a Technoarcheologist.   With Cold Star Project host Jason Kanigan, Dennis discusses:   what the term "advanced mission planning" means for him, and what it looks like in action   th...

USAF JAG and space lawyer Bryant Baker, JD, is on the Cold Star Project with host Jason Kanigan, and our topic is the future of space law. We're looking at it from the US perspective and how we can proceed with the possibility of minimizing conflict.   Bryant discusses how he got into the space law field, and how governance can be created through practice. Talk to Cold Star: https://www.colds...

How did the Soviets beat the Americans into space with the launch of Sputnik?    Dr. Andrew Aldrin, Director of the Aldrin Space Institute and ISU Center for Space Entrepreneurship at Florida Tech, did his PhD in Soviet studies. In doing research and interviewing people involved, Dr. Aldrin developed a unique perspective on the the topic which he shares here with Cold Star Project host J...

Nicole Shumaker, Research Specialist at Texas A&M, is in a unique role focusing on identifying opportunities for and developing synthesis in lunar construction methods. What gaps are there in the field between research, institutions, business and government? That's the key question Nicole is continuously answering, bringing people together in lunar construction efforts who may otherwise have n...

Luc Maisonobe of French company C-S is known as "the father of Orekit". This open governance low level flight dynamics library is used by many private and government organizations worldwide to identify and track space satellites.   Luc Maisonobe joins Cold Star Project host Jason Kanigan to discuss:   how the idea of Orekit was conceived the way the technology required for Orekit was ide...

Grant Anderson, Co-founder, President and CEO of Paragon Space Development Corp., is on the Cold Star Project with host Jason Kanigan to discuss life support and thermal control in space applications.   We cover: what mission Paragon is on in space what Grant believes has been critical in learning as a business leader at Paragon for a quarter-century how critical NASA's connection with therma...

Richard Ward of OrbitsEdge is on the Cold Star Project with host Jason Kanigan to share the promise of edge computing in orbit.  Described as an enabler by NASA, OrbitsEdge is working to put compute processing power into space.  We discuss:   what edge computing is why this focus for a space business what barriers to adoption Rick foresees the state of the space industry in the comp...

Dr. Andrew Aldrin is Director of the Aldrin Space Institute at the Florida Institute of Tech, ISU Center for Space Entrepreneurship; past President of Moon Express; and a former Boeing Business Development Director. Andy joins Cold Star Project host Jason Kanigan to discuss the challenges of space entrepreneurship.   Developing technical capability is not enough to have a business. This may s...

Dr. Gordon Roesler, past DARPA Program Manager and founder of Robots In Space, is on the Cold Star Project. With host Jason Kanigan of Cold Star Tech, Dr. Roesler discusses the coming capabilities and uses of robotic technologies in space.   Servicing satellites, recovering dead spacecraft and potentially recycling them, allowing in-orbit construction rather than having to expensively ship ev...

Dr. Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is my guest on the Cold Star Project, and our space topics are many. Main-belt asteroid 4589 McDowell was named after him in 1993, and he was a contributor to Sky and Telescope magazine from 1993 - 2010. Since 1989 he has authored and edited Jonathan's Space Report, which tracks all known space launches.   We discuss: &n...

SaaS Channel Marketing pro Stewart Townsend returns to the Cold Star Project, this time to talk about his new platform. Cloud. Vision. With Cloud. Vision, Stewart is leading Europe's SaaS founders, salespeople and marketers into a strong level of understanding and ability to execute in their software-as-a-service channel marketing efforts.   While industry data and best practices for SaaS cha...

Michael Maloney, founder of the advocacy organization Satellite Design for Recovery, is on the Cold Star Project with host Jason Kanigan to talk about the need for including a critical but not-yet-required component to the design of all objects launched into Earth orbit.   Satellites and other orbital objects should have mandated design requirements for rendezvous, capture and disposal. The c...

With guest Sean Ahlum, the Cold Star Project dips back to Season One and a look at the startup scene in Wilmington and South Eastern North Carolina. Jason Kanigan, the host of the Cold Star Project, has lived in Wilmington NC for nine out of the past ten years.   Sean is the VP of New Product Business Development at ABILITY Network, and the founder at seaCreatively consultancy. I especially w...

Dr. Christopher Dreyer is the Associate Director of Engineering and co-creator of the Center for Space Resources at Colorado School of Mines. The School offers an exciting Space Resources Program and Dr. Dreyer has played an integral role in developing it. Chris meets with Cold Star Project host Jason Kanigan to discuss the Program.   We cover:   how Chris got involved with the idea of a...

Clinton Clark is the Vice President of First Impressions at ExoAnalytic Solutions, and our topic is space situational awareness.    Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Space Traffic Management (STM) Space Situational Awareness (SSA)   are all terms--some newer than others--applicable to what ExoAnalytic does.   Clint Clark and Cold Star Project ho...

Founder of TWO seven-figure businesses, under-30 Ken Cesar, is back on the Cold Star Project. This is an unusual episode because it's Cold Star Tech founder Jason Kanigan and Ken Cesar having a frank discussion of what's wrong with the Internet Marketing-driven business model and mindset... and what it takes to build a real business today.   Ken insisted we have this nothing-held-back, no-sac...

Robert Whearty is Senior VP, Space Projects at Marsh, an insurance brokerage for the space industry. He's also a satellite engineer. On this episode of the Cold Star Project, Bob joins host Jason Kanigan of Cold Star Tech to explain how insurance for satellites works.   We take a broad look at the state of the space insurance field right now, with questions like: what's the process for insuri...

Dr. Pete Worden, NASA Ames Research Center Director from 2006 - 2015, is the guest on this special episode of the Cold Star Project. Dr. Rick Fleeter hosts at the Space Horizons 2020 conference at Brown University on February 8, 2020.  Dr. Worden shares his views on his long career in the Space field, and because he is answerable to no one we get to hear some powerful opinions. https://en.wik...

Managing Director of Space In Africa, Temidayo Oniosun, is on the Cold Star Project with host Jason Kanigan. Voted in 2018 as one of the World 24 Under 24 Leaders and Innovators in SPACE and STEAM by The Mars Generation, as well as one of the recipients of 35 Under 35 space industry recognition award by the International Institute of Space Commerce, Temidayo is an important voice in the Space fiel...

Xinabox co-founder Judi Sandrock from South Africa is on the Cold Star Project with host Jason Kanigan, and we're talking about their modular smallsat teaching tools.   XinaBox designs, develops, and sells modular electronics for the IoT and STEM education markets, in senior schools as well as universities. The technology allows for rapid IoT, embedded and electronics prototyping and developm...

Dr. Pauline Faure, Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic State University's Aerospace Engineering Department, is on the Cold Star Project with host Jason Kanigan. We're talking about what it's like to be a student in Cal Poly's CubeSat Lab.   Dr. Faure has international experience in Europe, Japan and the USA. The lab has completed eight missions in the past year including the bus for...