S3-38 Orbital Composites CTO Cole Nielsen-Cole: on Building Space Robots
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Interview with carbon-carbon printer, artificial solar sun schemer, space robotics guru, and future-space pirate Cole Nielsen-Cole, CTO of Orbital Composites. 0:00 Founding inspiration 4:53 Similarity between drones & satellites 6:20 Why Carbon Fiber is hard 9:42 Heat treatment for rocket nozzles 14:38 Cole’s artificial sun 16:59 List everything you’re doing 21:28 What first inspired you?  24:44 More projects 27:58 Orbital & Artemis mission 30:39 Why care about Mars? 35:10 How do you focus?  36:14 Hardest challenge 38:17 What does deep tech get wrong? 40:26 The inspiration problem 42:56 How do you think? 46:55 Why build hard things?
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