Benedetta Cattani is CEO and co-founder of Ecosmic, a space domain awareness company she started in 2024 with two former European Space Agency colleagues. She and her two female co-founders track satellites and warn customers about collision risks and hostile manoeuvres. They're working with the European Space Agency, Leonardo, NATO's early adoption programme, and various defence ministries. They're backed by Primo Space, the venture capital fund, and indirectly by the European Investment Fund. Benedetta argues that Ecosmic is important because space is congested, contested and complex, and that talent and determination can beat much bigger rivals.
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