Silicon Valley Space Startups & Satellites

Registration (required):
www.eventbrite.com/e/on-orbit-data-centers-dec-17-palo-alto-tickets-1976804329965

On-orbit data centers (SV Space meetup event, December 17, Wednesday, 6-9pm, Palo Alto CA). Panel discussion will cover: how to setup on-orbit data center infrastructure, energy sources for data center spacecraft, use cases for space data centers. Among speakers:
Mark Matossian (CTO, Lonestar Data Holdings);
Richard Ward (founder & CTO, OrbitsEdge).

We recommend to register in advance; seats are limited, 100.
About speakers:
Mark Matossian has worked on 10+ satellite constellation projects covering telecom, optical imaging, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and classified systems. Mark also led advanced projects at Google for 13 years, building all the hardware for Google’s global data center buildout and led program management for what became OpenWeb. Post-Google, Mark leveraged AWS to open the DOD/IC SAR market for ICEYE, where he served as the CEO and President of ICEYE US. He is now CTO/COO for Lonestar Data Holdings, space data storage startup.

Richard Ward is a CTO and founder of OrbitsEdge providing a micro-datacenter in orbit to process the vast amount of pace-based data and help minimize the cost of backhaul to earth. Before he was a production manager and chief laboratory researcher at Deep Space Industries. Earlier he was a company business owner in heat flows, plasticity of metals, metallurgy and alloys and heating affects. In 1995-2001 Rich served at US Marine Corps as infantryman.

Event schedule (PM PT):
6:00-6:30 -- networking;
6:30-8:00 -- panel discussion;
8:00-9:00 -- networking.