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, Mountain View 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. Why it's important for aerospace and data management now: data infrastructure security; alternative capacity and data transmission; high data storage and processing demand for space assets and terrestrial applications.
Speakers:
Eric Anderson (angel investor; president, And One Technologies);
Mark Matossian (CTO, Lonestar Data Holdings -- on-orbit data storage);
Richard Ward (founder & CTO, OrbitsEdge -- on-orbit data centers);
Dennis Wingo (founder & CTO, Spacebilt -- on-orbit data centers).

We recommend to register in advance; seats are limited, 100.

About speakers:

Eric Anderson is a startup angel investor across multiple business areas and president of And One Technologies. He emphasizes delivery of data and services via new technologies, channels and business models including facilitating government access and use of emerging commercial space products and services. Eric contributed to dozens of space systems, missions and programs as chief technologist for space at Moog, at CSA Engineering, where he served several years as president, and as member of technical staff at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He earned degrees in aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.

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.

Dennis Wingo has decades worth of experience in computer and aerospace industries as well as a ten year stint in academia. Founder & now CTO of Skycorp (Spacebilt), and Greentrail Energy Inc., co-founder & CTO of Orbital Recovery Inc. Key areas of expertise are solar electric propulsion, satellite and spacecraft design, advanced mission planning, and lunar surface operational scenario development. Patents on space logistics systems, in space assembly, and spacecraft reprovisioning (one sold to Orbital ATK).

Venue address:
Circuit Launch Mountain View (robotics incubator/electronics co-working space, www.circuitlaunch.com)
599 Fairchild dr, Mountain View, CA 94043
(near NASA Moffett Field takeoff)

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