Our guest this week wears many hats in the space sector, but we will focus on one of them. After having been an early employee at SpaceX, Bulent Altan is now the CEO of Mynaric, a laser communications company. Space Lasers? Trust me, it is as cool as it sounds, both from a technology as well as business potential perspective. I share Bulent’s view that optical is the future of communications. Find out why in this episode.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
2:27 Bulent's story incl. why he chose laser communications
7:17 The current state of satellite connectivity
12:32 Downlinking satellites
15:21 Optical comms taking over
18:19 Laser tech talk
29:32 Optical's commercial advantage
40:15 Mynaric's to-do list
49:18 Space sector recent past and future
52:14 Sci-fi

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