In this episode we speak with Kevin Stadnyk, co-founder and CEO of Obruta Space, about building autonomous spacecraft software to enable the in space economy.
Kevin shares his journey from aerospace engineering and graduate research into entrepreneurship, including early lessons from starting during the pandemic and pivoting from space debris removal to autonomy software.
The discussion explores rendezvous, proximity operations and docking, why synthetic training environments are critical for space AI, and how falling launch costs are unlocking refuelling, servicing and large scale orbital infrastructure. Kevin also reflects on startup trade offs, time management and building for the industry that will exist five years from now, not the one we see today.
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