Rob DeMillo, CEO & Co-Founder of Sophia Space
In this episode we speak with Rob DeMillo, CEO and co-founder of Sophia Space, about commercialising compute in orbit.Rob shares his journey from JPL and the FAA into a 30 year entrepreneurial career spanning media, cloud computing and now space infrastructure. He explains how Sophia Space emerged from research into space based power and evolved into a company building high performance, passively cooled servers for low Earth orbit.The conversation explores why orbital data centres are needed, how falling launch costs are reshaping the space economy, and what it takes to move from academic…
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