On Orbit
Conversations on satellite communications, space infrastructure, and industry leadership.
Inside SatEnlight's Spiral Staircase of Lasers: Interview with Startup Space Winner Matteo Vismara
In this episode, Jeffrey Hill interviews Matteo Vismara, CEO and co‑founder of Italy‑based SatNlight, the winner of the Sat Show’s 10th annual Startup Space Entrepreneur Pitch Contest. Vismara explains how his team’s optical‑communication terminal uses stacked vortex beams—visualized as a multi‑layer spiral staircase of lasers—to dramatically increase data capacity via optical angular momentum, a concept born from CERN research. He discusses the risky decision to leave a secure academic career for entrepreneurship, the pivotal pitch‑coaching advice that sharpened his presentation, and how Italy’s legacy in space science fuels his vision of setting new industry standards.
Automation and Agility: How SSC Space Go Is Designed for the New Age of Ground
In this episode, Rachel Jewett talks with SSC Space product manager Jonas Osland and product owner Victor Pankoff about SSC Space Go, a new ground‑segment‑as‑a‑service offering aimed at the fast‑growing small‑satellite and constellation market. They explain how the service shifts...
Investing in American Manufacturing: Shey Sabripour Talks CesiumAstro's Ramp-Up
In this episode, Shea Sabripour, founder of Cesium Astro, discusses the company’s recent $270 million funding round and XIM financing aimed at expanding U.S. manufacturing in Texas. He outlines Cesium Astro’s evolution from software‑defined radios to full‑scale satellite missions, emphasizing a...
Designing for the Next Generation of GEO With Swissto12 CEO Emile De Rijk
In this episode, Swiss212 CEO Emil de Rijk explains how his company is disrupting the geostationary market by building smaller, faster, and more affordable satellites with advanced, in‑house RF payloads. He discusses the trade‑offs between payload flexibility and performance, the...
Semiconductors, Satellites, and Scale With Spirit Electronics CEO Marti McCurdy
In this episode, Spirit Electronics CEO Marti McCurdy explains how her company provides end‑to‑end semiconductor services—from custom ASIC design and foundry access to wafer processing, packaging, board assembly, and final box builds—for aerospace, defense, and the rapidly growing new‑space sector....
The Infrastructure Revolution Behind Data Centers in Space With Ramon.Space CEO Avi Shabtai
In this episode, Ramon.Space CEO Avi Shabtai explains the vision of a distributed‑architecture data center in space, where a mesh of satellites functions as individual compute and storage nodes. He outlines the technical foundations—edge‑computing hardware, onboard processing, and inter‑satellite networking—that...