John Gedmark
@Gedmark
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CEO @Astranis. Founder, aerospace engineer. Building real things to solve some of the world’s hardest problems
San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2008
One Simple Trick for breaking into the defense market: Spend ten years inventing & launching a new product category that inspires a new, $4 billion Program of Record
Gotta love when your satellites are the feature image for a new, $4 billion program of record
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One of the best days of my life My son got to say "bye bye" to the @Astranis rocket before it launched... https://t.co/MWwzdlUm7B
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Our first two satellites are now on station and fully operational over the United States. With just these two spacecraft we’re providing broadband coverage over the entire continental US, in the world’s first private, dedicated network from GEO. We deployed these satellites to
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Astranis is now a prime contractor for a @SpaceForceDoD Program of Record. We've been selected for Phase I of Protected Tactical Satcom-Global, an up to $4 billion program to launch small geo comms satellites on an aggressively fast timeline. That is what we do best. Game on.
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Proud to be on this list with some titans of the angel investing world. America needs to get back to building things again. That's all that matters.
I asked a bunch of founders: "Who were your 1-3 most helpful angel investors?" The list: 1. Adam Smith - @asmith 2. Alex Adelman - @alexadelman 3. Alex Wu (CFO Advisors) 4. Alexandr Wang - @alexandr_wang 5. Ali Rowghani - @ROWGHANI 6. Anantha Kancherla (GM) 7. Andrés Pérez
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As the story goes, on his deathbed Jack Northrop received a special clearance to see the new and highly classified B-2 design. Which used the flying wing approach he had pioneered decades earlier. His reaction? “Now I know why God has kept me alive for 25 years"
The Chiefs used a B-2 for last night's flyover. The B-2 is the world's most expensive plane ($2B+) & its wingspan stretches half a football field. The plane can carry 16 nuclear bombs & reach anywhere in the world within hours. Only 21 were ever built. https://t.co/4M4Iqip4Fe
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The time had clearly come to deal with the Iran nuclear problem. Hugely grateful for the men and women of the U.S. military and the White House for pulling off such a daring mission with stealth and skill. The world is far safer today as a result. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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It was an honor to welcome the US Space Force’s Chief of Space Operations, General Chance Saltzman @SpaceForceCSO to Astranis HQ. We're proud to be an American satellite company, and stand ready to support the DoD & help protect our country's interests in the space domain.
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Nothing like unboxing a new CNC machine! Now let’s build some hardware 🇺🇸
We just unboxed a DMG Mori DMC 75 — newest addition to the @Astranis machine shop. (Full unboxing & demo in the replies.)
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Six years ago, today, I joined Astranis. In that time, we have: ‣ hired 400+ people ‣ built out a 150,000 sq ft factory ‣ sold >$1B of connectivity services ‣ launched five satellites on two rockets Already the job of a lifetime. And we're truly just getting started.
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Link to full article on new Chinese lunar constellation-- https://t.co/8SjcScvoP5
globaltimes.cn
China has successfully established the world's first three-satellite constellation on the distant retrograde orbit (DRO) in the Earth-moon region of space, connecting them with stable inter-satellite...
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China is not only winning the race to the Moon, the US doesn't even realize a race is happening.
"We are in a real space race right now with China." - @Gedmark "There is a series of craters on the moon with water ice trapped in them, which are extremely valuable real estate." If you are interested in space, lunar/solar and NASA, we recommend giving this a watch.
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No pivots! Just full send. Thanks for having me on bros
We asked @Gedmark about the story of @Astranis. "We started the company 9 years ago (an overnight success)." "The idea is to do this one thing: next-gen satellite design in high orbits." "No pivots. We started with this exact thesis in mind."
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Astranis is building a new satellite for Taiwan. 🇹🇼 With our customer, Chunghwa Telecom, we will bring Taiwan its first-ever dedicated communications satellite. Chunghwa Telecom is the largest telco in Taiwan, with a market cap of more than $30 billion USD. Independent, secure
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Astranis is hosting a House Party at Symposium tonight! 5pm start, walking distance from the Broadmoor. DM me for the address.
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Software-defined radios are a cheat code. We just transmitted GPS signals that your phone can understand using the SDR we built for geostationary comms This is a huge deal. It means we can use our *existing* production line to bolster GPS resilience.
How can DoD move faster? By working with New Primes like Astranis. We just delivered a new demo to Space Force — transmitting GPS signals using our existing, flight-heritage SDR. And we did it ahead of schedule. Here’s the full news: Astranis transmits core GPS signals in
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