Balerion Space Ventures

Eye of the Dragon

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Space and defense tech companies hosted by Balerion Space Ventures balerionspace.substack.com

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BSV Webinar 0024: Fabri 04.12.2025 50:21

Fabri Founder and CEO, Steven Davis, sits with Balerion Advisor, Doug McAdams, to discuss the rise of next-generation foundries and the revival of U.S. manufacturing. 00:00 – Introduction Doug opens the webinar, frames the conversation around U.S. reindustrialization, and introduces Steven Davis, Founder & CEO of Fabri. 00:20 – Steven’s Background & Early Engineering Influences Steven discusses gr...

BSV Webinar 0023: SARsatX 04.12.2025 54:56

SARsatX Co-Founder and Chief of Business, Muhannad Almutiry, sits down with Balerion General Partner, Phil Scully, to discuss the First SAR Constellation in the Middle East. 00:00–00:11 — Opening & Introductions Phil welcomes attendees and invites Muhannad to share his background and context on the growing space and defense-tech ecosystem in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA). 00:11–01:02 — Fou...

BSV Webinar 0022: Basalt 03.12.2025 56:21

Basalt Co-Founder and CEO, Maximillian Bhatti, sits down with Balerion Senior Associate, Aidan Daoussis, to discuss the rise of fully autonomous satellite constellations. 00:00–00:30 — Introduction Aidan opens the session, welcomes participants, and introduces Maximillian Bhatti, CEO & Co-Founder of Basalt, a YC-backed startup building autonomous satellite constellations. 00:30–01:10 — What Basalt...

BSV Webinar 0021: ATMOS Space Cargo 30.11.2025 57:04

ATMOS Space Cargo CEO, Sebastian Klaus, sit downs with Balerion Senior Associate, Aidan Daoussis, to discuss missing half of space logistics: getting things back from orbit (downmass). 00:00–00:23 — Welcome & Introduction Aidan welcomes everyone to a pre-Thanksgiving webinar and introduces the topic: the missing half of space logistics—bringing things back down from orbit .Sebastian Klaus is intro...

BSV Webinar 0020: Orbital Paradigm 21.11.2025 55:27

00:00 – Introduction • Welcome and guest intro: Francesco Cacciatore, CEO/CTO and founder of Orbital Paradigm.• Mission: reusable orbital-return systems with high cadence. 01:00 – The Core Problem in Space Logistics • Launch is now reusable, frequent, and cheap — but everything after launch remains disposable.• In-orbit mobility, logistics, and services are fragmented and uneconomic.• OP’s thesis:...

BSV Webinar 0019: Stratolaunch 20.11.2025 55:49

00:00–02:20 - Introduction Aidan welcomes the audience. Introduces Stratolaunch and Dr. Zachary Krevor. Krevor shares his path: Lockheed, Sierra Nevada, early hypersonics exposure, joining Stratolaunch pre-acquisition, and becoming CEO in 2021. 02:20–06:10 - The World’s Largest Plane & Stratolaunch Origins Story of ROC, the dual-fuselage aircraft designed by Scaled Composites. Original mission: ai...

BSV Webinar 0018: Outpost 16.11.2025 54:17

00:00 – Introductions Aidan welcomes Jason Dunn, Co-Founder/CEO of Outpost, and Amir Blachmann, President. He frames the session around a critical question: What if spacecraft weren’t disposable, but part of a regenerative logistics chain in space? Outpost is pioneering returnable satellites that can reenter Earth intact, making space infrastructure reusable rather than consumable. 02:10 – Origins...

BSV Webinar 0017: Dawn Aerospace 16.11.2025 56:43

00:00 – Introductions Welcome and framing of the conversation with Stefan Powell, Co-founder, CEO & CTO of Dawn Aerospace. Stefan joins from New Zealand, where Dawn develops horizontal takeoff/landing spaceplanes and green bi-propellant satellite propulsion systems. 01:10 – Why Spaceplanes? Stefan describes the core belief behind Dawn: “To build a spacefaring civilization, we have to move away fro...

BSV Webinar 0016: Turion Space 16.11.2025 56:14

00:00 – Introductions Welcome and framing of the conversation with Ryan, founder & CEO of Turion Space, a company building in-orbit servicing, space domain awareness, and future asteroid-mining infrastructure. 00:47 – Founding Origin & “Hook Moment” Ryan describes the moment at age 10–11 when an NPR segment on exoplanets set his life mission: “Build the ships that go there.” Early self-taught engi...

BSV Webinar 0015: TRL11 13.11.2025 50:28

00:00 – Introductions * Pre-webinar greetings * Hosts and guests chat before starting * Locations: NYC, Houston, Orange County 01:00 – Welcome & Speaker Intro * Nicholas, CEO of TRL-11 * Oscar & Emmy award–winning video technologist * TRL-11 delivers video + edge decision-making for space * Reminder about interactive Q&A 02:00 – What TRL-11 Does * “Ring for space” analogy * Cameras + machine visio...

BSV Webinar 0014: Vast Space 31.10.2025 57:54