4.20.21-Space-Tech-Analytical-Space

WESTON MARLOW: Hello. My name is Weston Marlow. I am the CTO of Analytical Space, and today I want to talk to you about what ASI is bringing to bear, which is enabling next-generation access to space-based data. After the talk, I can be reached at weston.marlow@analyticalspace.com.

Now, if we look at what ASI is working on, we have to talk about the remote sensing industry as a whole. And the way we see it is, the remote sensing industry is experiencing a rapid boom, which is amazing for humans. What we're seeing is, there are well over 900 satellites creating amazing insights and intelligence about the Earth's surface and how it's changing, and how we humans are utilizing it.

We spent many billions of dollars to develop and launch those satellites into space. The problem, though, is that we have more and more of these satellites coming online and getting into orbit. And they share the same connectivity infrastructure that has existed for some time, now.

Even if you were to cover every square inch of the Earth's surface in ground stations, you'd still have massive blackout zones due to oceans. So 70% of the Earth is covered with water. You can't easily put ground stations out there.

And so that leads to massive delays in getting that data that's generated and captured down to the end users, to create those insights that are much-needed as our rapidly changing world evolves. So what ASI is bringing that can solve that solution is, we're creating a flexible communications infrastructure in low Earth orbit.

So we are in infrastructure development company using satellites. We are developing the satellites that will be meshed together in this low Earth orbit network, to allow other low Earth orbit, earth observing satellites to offload that data into our network. We do so using software-defined platforms, both in RF and on the optical front, to allow increased connectivity time, data throughput, and then decreasing that latency from capture to delivery.

Because we're software defined, we are backwards-compatible and allow satellites that are already in orbit to tie into our network, because of our flexibility. And we're building a future-proof technology in that we're trying to bring to bear amazing optical communications subsystems, as well, that people can host on their satellites.

So if you look at the graphic at the bottom of the screen, we are those teal boxes. We are those pieces of an infrastructure play. The gray boxes or other satellite users. So you can connect directly into our systems using RF or optical, and then we migrate that data using our meshed satellites, and get it to the ground.

Or if you're a legacy satellite that is in perhaps an off-nominal orbit, we can actually formation fly with those satellites, using our miniaturized satellite systems, offload that data when we fly close to you, and then pipe that into the network with extended length distances. And then in the future, as satellites are flying future payloads, we can actually post that optical communications payload and allow people to have extreme length distances, and really increase that throughput.

So again, we're software defined. And we're also looking to be future-proof by enabling new technologies to be hosted on people's satellites. Now, if we look at the use cases for this, artificial intelligence and machine learning are creating new insights about the Earth, using more and more data. And these platforms are creating more and more data to satellites that are in orbit and flying soon.

So we're seeing an increase in temporal resolution, an increase in spatial resolution. And so overall, it's just a massive data intensity increase. But we can see amazing insights about disaster response, humanitarian need, financial and hedge fund intelligence, defense intelligence. There are so many use cases for more data.

But we need the infrastructure to move that. And that's what ASI is bringing. So when we look at the partnership opportunities that we're looking for, the folks that we really want to talk to, it's on both ends of that spectrum. So we want to talk to the consumers, the aggregators of that data, so folks in the defense of civil agencies who really want more data, or a variety of data, commercial users or financial users who want to make insights about commodities that are moving on the Earth's surface, or due to events that have occurred due to weather events.

And in that note, we want to talk to the folks who are monitoring weather, who are doing environmental research, and want faster revisit rates for those weather events. And similarly, we want to talk to the people who are creating that data. So the satellites that are going up, the companies that are creating those networks of satellites or constellations that are generating amazing volumes of data, they're still sharing the same ground infrastructure.

And we can change that. We want them to talk to us. We can do benchtop testing. We can do in-orbit testing to really prove that we're ready to take that data and move it for them, and get it to those hungry users on the ground.

Again, my name is Weston Marlow. I can be reached at weston.marlow@analyticalspace.com And I want to thank you for your time.