In this episode we talk about MIT's Lunar Knowledge Graph called Lunar Open Architecture and MIT’s intriguing research on a crowd-sourced, sharing-economy-like, tokenized satellite constellation. A sat-constellation-as-public-utility. The MIT’s Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative has the goal “to invent, create, and deploy ideas that seem exotic and impossible today, but could be commonplace in ten years.” Our guest today is the research lead of MIT’s Lunar Open Architecture project, Mehak Sarang. Mehak is a trained physicist and a Research Associate both at Harvard Business School and MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative, and an active member of the Open Lunar Foundation, Moon Dialogs, and the SGAC EAGLE Team. CONTENT 00:02:14 Intro 00:07:44 MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative 00:12:50 Lunar Open Architecture 00:19:47 Knowledge Graph / GraphQL / Automated Reasoning 00:26:04 Stakeholder Interests of NASA, SpaceX, and others 00:32:32 Database Open Access 00:35:35 How to contribute? 00:37:03 Sharing Economy in Space | Blocksat 00:44:39 Satellite constellation for the people by the people 00:53:53 Time to market 00:56:17 What is needed to start up Blocksat? 01:00:13 Federated Satellite Applications 01:03:26 What’s next at MIT Space Exploration Initiative 01:05:33 Next Harvard Business Review Case Study on ISS 01:11:49 Why space, why space now?