Having personally downlinked a lot of cool pics from space, this one takes the cake. Immensely proud of our team at @K2SpaceCo

Of course that’s your contention. You’ve never given much thought to ground stations at all until you’ve received the AWS bill from your first satellite you launched 3 weeks ago. Now you’ve read CNBC’s “Disney star launches satellite data startup” and so now you are absolutely convinced that phased array technology is a key to completely revolutionize space data transmission, but before that, you thought that as access to space becomes commoditized the best way to drive connectivity prices down is to utilize economies of scale across a broad deployment of parabolic antennas, which will only last till next week when you’ll consider international licensing requirements and hope that your provider serves “seamless, cell-phone like handover”, which again will only last till your next industry convention where you will buy in the argument that “optical communication is the next big thing” and go back to your team suggesting you go all-in on optical downlink with no RF back-up.

The future is being built in nondescript warehouses in El Segundo @RainmakerCorp @anysignalinc @JohnsSignals

Mira’s serving up space views. 🌎 LEO Express-2 is progressing smoothly, with healthy uplink and downlink established and all systems performing within expectations. For more, view our latest mission update: impulsespace.com/updates/leo… #LEOExpress2

Mira say hi from orbit! @GoToImpulse

It’s pretty awesome that the first spacecraft built by Impulse Space is still out there kicking after four months in orbit.