Q&A: Space company climbs into universe of small satellite propulsion (VTDigger)
By Anne Wallace Allen, VTDigger
“He credits the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies for teaching him how to pitch to investors. Without that help, he said, he would have had to leave the state to work in the space industry elsewhere.”
What are small satellites being used for?
“Ryan McDevitt: There are two major applications: Imaging, where photographers and sensors are looking at heat map;, and then some telecommunications, whether that’s on the ground or bouncing off a satellite so you can reach a different part of the world.
It’s limited, but where it gets really interesting, and we’re just on the cusp of this right now: If you have 10 of these working together, you can do the science or commercial activities one of those big satellites used to do, at significantly less cost.”
