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2013 is poised to be a good year for Earth2Orbit (E2O). After the successful launch of E2O's first client satellite in 2012, E2O
has received and introduced to Antrix multiple launch clients from the Untied States, Japan, and Europe for both secondary and
dedicated launches.
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| DECEMBER_ |
Earth2Orbit CEO Dr. Susmita Mohanty invited for a lecture at an international
Artmap research workshop hosted at ENSCI (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de
Création Industrielle) in Paris.
Earth2Orbit CEO Dr. Susmita Mohanty meets with top business development executives from the Launchers Business Division of
Astrium Space Transportation in Paris.
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| NOVEMBER_ |
Earth2Orbit co-founder and CEO Dr. Susmita Mohanty selected by the Financial Times for their 2012
"25 Indians to Watch" list.
Earth2Orbit co-founder and CEO-USA Mr. Amaresh Kollipara interviewed by Geospatial World. Read the
full interview here.
E2O CEO interviewed and quoted in the
Forbes-India
article about how the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) can collaborate with private enterprise.
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Ms. Katarina Eriksson, E2O Launch Services business development executive attends the
4th Nano-Satellite Symposium held in Nagoya, Japan from 10-13 October 2012. The 5th
edition will be held from 20-22 November 2013 at the University of Tokyo.
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| SEPTEMBER_ |
Earth2Orbit's Japanese client satellite PROITERES (Project of Osaka Institute
of Technology Electric Rocket Engine onboard small Spaceship) was successfully launched on the Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
(PSLV-C21) on 9 September 2012. The PROITERES flew
as a secondary payload; the primary payload was the French earth observation satellite SPOT-6 built by Astrium. PROITERES will study
the powered-flight of a small satellite using pulsed plasma thrusters and observe Japan’s Kansai district with a high-resolution camera.
The PSLV-C21 launch marked India’s 100th space mission and Earth2Orbit’s 1st client satellite launch.
One of India's leading newspapers commended
Earth2Orbit (E2O) in the successful launch of its first client satellite aboard the PSLV.
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Osaka Institute of Technology's (OIT) 15-kilogram satellite PROITERES arrives
by air at Chennai International Airport. PROITERES is then transported by road, escorted by personnel from Earth2Orbit, OIT and the
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to the
Sriharikota launch site in Andhra Pradesh. OIT professors and students, with support from the ISRO technical staff carry out
checkout tests on-site and integrate the satellite into the rocket payload bay.
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| JULY_ |
Earth2Orbit preparing for the launch of its first client satellite on the PLSV next month
Earth2Orbit welcomes ISRO’s recent announcement to outsource the production of the PSLV rocket and the manufacturing of communication satellites to the industry
Dr. Susmita Mohanty, CEO-Earth2Orbit, talks to the Economic Times about making the PSLV the international rocket of choice in its genre of launch vehicles.
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Mr. Jim Le Pere joins Earth2Orbit as VP of Launch Services. Mr. Le Pere is an aerospace industry veteran who was formerly director of sales and marketing for Boeing Launch Services and Sea Launch in Southern California.
International Space University (ISU) alumni Katarina Eriksson join Earth2Orbit as a Business Development Associate. Katarina is based out of Sweden and will market E2O Launch Services in Europe.
Amaresh Kollipara, USA-CEO of Earth2Orbit, is working with the Space Angels Network to help produce the 2012 Space Frontier Foundation Business Plan Competition. NASA is funding this years’ competition and the first place prize is an unprecedented $100,000. Amaresh will help coach the finalists and will help provide investment guidance to the winners of the competition.
Amaresh Kollipara, CEO-USA of Earth2Orbit, is working with the Space Angels Network and the Silicon Valley Space Business Roundtable to produce a Remote Sensing and Earth Imagery event in Silicon Valley, CA. The event will feature companies and government entities dealing with advancing remote sensing technologies and businesses. Remote sensing is currently a multi-billion dollar industry and it is poised to make major strides as costs are lowered and as technologies become more capable. The event will center on emerging applications in this sector, which draw upon the “value added services” or “data” that can be derived from raw satellite images. |
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Susmita Mohanty, CEO and Siddharth Das, Director of Earth2Orbit (E2O) visit Osaka, Yokohama, Kamakura and Tokyo to meet with universities and companies interested in E2O’s launch procurement services and earth imagery business. E2O’s Japanese partner is Osaka-based Solid Corporation.
ISRO engineers fly down to E2O’s first Japanese client - Osaka Institute of Technology (OIT) to carry out interface checks between the ISRO separation mechanism and the OIT satellite PROITERES that is scheduled to launch on the PSLV in August 2012.
The Space Investment Summit invites E2O Co-Founder and CEO-USA Amaresh Kollipara to deliver the opening presentation at the Space Investment Summit 10 in Washington DC, USA. The Summit is a biannual conference devoted to fostering valuable dialogue between investors and space entrepreneurs. |
| MARCH_ |
| Susmita Mohanty, CEO of Earth2Orbit, corresponding member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) attends the spring meetings of the IAA in Paris; she chairs the Commission-6 meeting as Secretary and also represents the Commission at the Plenary and SAC meetings. |
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| DECEMBER_ |
| Earth2Orbit (E2O) invited to present the state of the industry at the 3rd Nano-Satellite Symposium to be held at Kitakyushu, Japan from 12-14 December. E2O CEO-USA Amaresh Kollipara to attend the symposium to deliver the talk and meet with Japanese teams developing nano-satellites to offer them launche procurement services on the Indian PSLV. |
| NOVEMBER_ |
| Leading Italian architecture and design magazine DOMUS publishes an interview of Earth2Orbit founder and orbital entrepreneur Susmita Mohanty. In the interview Susmita talks about the emerging space tourism industry and how that will change the way we design our future spaceships. |
| OCTOBER_ |
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) has made its twentieth launch Wednesday morning, carrying the Megha-Tropiques (Indo-French project) atmospheric research satellite and three other spacecraft into orbit.
Earth2Orbit founder Susmita Mohanty interviewed by Joseph Grima, Editor of the Italian architecture and design magazine DOMUS, in Milan |
| SEPTEMBER_ |
Earth2Orbit CEO-USA Amaresh Kollipara moderates the first ever space panel at the MIT-Stanford Venture Lab (VLab) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in Palo Alto, California. Panel titled “Space Exploration: Not Just for Billionaires Anymore”. Panelists include executives from Virgin Galactic, Moon Express, Space Systems Loral and NanoRacks.
Earth2Orbit CEO Dr. Susmita Mohanty meets with researchers from the Institute for the Future (IFTF) in Palo Alto, California to discuss potential collaboration |
| AUGUST_ |
| E2O CEO Dr. Susmita Mohanty invited by Alliance Francaise in Mumbai to give a public lecture about the International Space Station (ISS). |
| JULY_ |
Earth2Orbit (E2O) signs an agreement with Solid Corporation of Osaka (Japan) to engage them as its exclusive agent to provide customers in Japan, on behalf of E2O, strategic advice, procurement of launch opportunities and other associated services for the launch of payloads onboard Indian launch vehicles.
E2O founders Susmita Mohanty and Amaresh Kollipara featured in the MINT. Earth2Orbit selected by MINT as part of its annual selection of India top-10 cool start-ups (Earth2Orbit: Local astronaut-makers). The MINT is India’s leading business newspaper published in partnership with the Wall Street Journal.
E2O founder Susmita Mohanty featured in the Financial Times article on 'India's new guard of start-ups’
E2O CEO Dr. Susmita Mohanty invited by the American Center in Mumbai to give a public lecture as a farewell to the Space Shuttle fleet that retires this month. |
| APRIL_ |
| Dubbed as a "sweet seventeen" for India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), the PSLV-C16 marked the LV's17th consecutive successful launch making it one of the most reliable rockets in its class of LVs |
| MARCH_ |
Earth2Orbit (E2O) CEO Susmita Mohanty meets with American aerospace companies and government officials in Washington, DC to discuss E2O offerings such as launch procurement services on Indian rockets, value-added earth observation data products from India’s fleet of remote sensing satellites and space hardware manufacturing.
E2O founders Susmita Mohanty and Amaresh Kollipara meet with top-level executives from a Japanese company to discuss collaboration opportunities.
E2O CEO Susmita Mohanty invited to deliver a public lecture at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, DC as part of the festival "maximum INDIA". Lecture title: "3010: SPACESHIP UTOPIAS"
E2O CEO Susmita Mohanty invited to give a talk about the Space Shuttle at the Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia, USA. Lecture title: FAREWELL, SPACE SHUTTLE |
| FEBRUARY_ |
Earth2Orbit (E2O) and Taneja Aerospace & Aviation Ltd. (TAAL) sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly pursue international clients for their space hardware manufacturing business
E2O and partner Semcon participate in a technical evaluation meeting with the Technology Transfer team from the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (VSSC), the Indian space agency’s rocket development center in Thiruvananthapuram. The meeting took place at Semcon’s premises in Whitefield, Bangalore and included executives from E2O, Semcon, Antrix Corporation and VSSC |
| JANUARY_ |
Mr. Ashok Saxena, an aerospace industry veteran and former Managing Director of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Bangalore Complex - joins the E2O Board
Dr. CVS Prakash, former Director, International Marketing, Antrix and ISRO expert in Remote Sensing & Geographical Information Systems (RS & GIS) joins the E2O Management team as the Vice President of the RS & GIS business vertical |
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Earth2Orbit Directors meet with the new Executive Director of Antrix Corporation, Mr. H N Madhusudhan to discuss dedicated commercial launches onboard the PSLV
In conjunction with the visit to India by President Obama, the United States removed 4 ISRO centers from the Entity List, which previously prevented any form of commercial and non-commercial relationships between U.S. entities and specific ISRO centers. The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, and the Solid Propellant Rocket Boosting Plant have been removed from the Entity List on November 7th |
| OCTOBER_ |
Antrix Corporation, ISRO’s commercial arm appoints a new Executive Director
Geospatial Today interviews Earth2Orbit CEO Susmita Mohanty. Mohanty discusses how India can become a global space player and capture a significant chunk of the world space market |
| SEPTEMBER_ |
| Earth2Orbit CEO Susmita Mohanty chairs a session on Space Tourism Architecture at the 60th International Astronautical Congress, Prague (27th September – 1st October, 2010) |
| AUGUST_ |
Earth2Orbit approached by the Asia International Purchase Office of one of Europe’s biggest aerospace and defense contractors – the Thales Group - for MGSE trolleys (satellite integration stands). E2O discusses hardware sales opportunity with Antrix.
Earth2Orbit CEO Susmita Mohanty speaks about the Small Satellites Market Trends and PSLV, at the Bangalore Space Expo 2010 |
| JULY_ |
NewSpace 2010 conference in the Silicon Valley hosted by the Space Frontier Foundation from 23 – 25 July. E2O Co-Founder and CEO-USA, Amaresh Kollipara moderates a top-level panel on Space Based Solar Power at NewSpace 2010. Panel Video.
E2O Co-Founder and CEO, Susmita Mohanty meets with top bureaucrats and policy makers in New Delhi to discuss strategy for enabling India to go out and capture a significant share of the 160 billion dollar plus commercial space market.
Ecuadorian non-profit organization seeks E2O’s services to secure a launch slot for their satellite onboard Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in 2011.
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The Space Investment Summit invites E2O Co-Founder and CEO-USA Amaresh Kollipara to deliver the opening presentation at the Space Investment Summit 8 in Chicago, Illinois. The Summit is a biannual conference devoted to fostering valuable dialogue between investors and space entrepreneurs.
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Italian university seeks E2O’s services to secure a launch slot for their satellite onboard Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in 2011.
Turkish university seeks E2O’s services to secure a launch slot for their satellite onboard India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in 2012.
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Earth2Orbit featured in India’s premier business daily – MINT, published in partnership with the Wall Street Journal.
Akshay Patel and Aneal Krishnan from the Harvard Business School begin their internship with Earth2Orbit; Internship focus: Small Satellite Market Study.
NASA announces a CubeSats initiative to launch small cube-shaped satellites for education and not-for-profit organizations.
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Earth2Orbit team meets with top ISRO personnel in Bangalore to present E-POD Design.
E2O begins talks with ISRO’s Satellite Center’s (ISAC) Small Satellite Office, Bangalore for acceptance and qualification testing of E-POD.
Earth2Orbit CEO meets with Antrix Executive Director to discuss commercialization proposals.
Earth2Orbit CEO meets with ISRO Scientific Secretary to discuss space policy issues to support private aerospace start-ups from India to compete successfully in the global space marketplace.
Earth2Orbit team meets with Professors at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore to discuss collaborative R&D in the area of satellite subsystems.
E2O invited by the E-Cell at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) and E-Summit at Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G) for a business presentation
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Sanket Nayak, E2O Head of Business Development, meets Mr. Banjamin Ben Elezier, Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor of Israel, and Mr. Mouneer Agbariya, Economic Counselor, Embassy of Israel, New Delhi, as part of Indian Business Delegation identified by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), to discuss collaborative business opportunities between Indian and Israeli companies.
E2O begins talks with the Aerospace Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay for collaborative research.
E2O showcased at the 7th edition of Proto.in, India’s premier start-up showcase platform, at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) on 30th January 2010, as one of India’s Top-15 hottest start-ups. E2O pitches to blue chip Venture Capital firms and Angel Investor groups.
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Mr. Nilamani Mohanty, former Deputy Director of the ISRO Space Applications Center (SAC) joins E2O as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO). During his tenure at SAC, Mr. Mohanty oversaw payload design of the 3rd and 4th generation Indian National Satellite System (INSAT) and worked as Project Director to establish the Master Control Facility (MCF) for the INSAT series of communication satellites, amongst others. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE). India and Member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). USA. He has also been a Faculty Member at the United Nations Centre for Space Science and Technology Education for the Asia-Pacific region.
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E2O finishes the breadboard model of E-POD Control System and Actuation mechanism. Design concept is proven and is ready for PCB design followed by prototyping.
The Planetary Society. USA expresses interest in E2O’s launch procurement service on-board PSLV for its LightSail-1 project.
French company 4-Space s.a.r.l. and E2O discuss collaboration with the goal of submitting a proposal to the European Space Agency (ESA) under its ARTES-20 program. The project under discussion involves the design, fabrication and testing of an Amphibious Deployable Shelter System for Rapid Flood Disaster Relief. E2O begins talks with India’s National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) to explore field demonstration possibilities in the flood prone areas in India.
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The Space Investment Summit Coalition invited E2O Co-Founder Amaresh Kollipara to deliver another opening presentation at the Space Investment Summit 7 in Boston, Massachusetts. Amaresh, along with two distinguished co-presenters, provided an overview of Public-Private Partnerships to investors and space entrepreneurs.
E2O and Semcon [India] conduct E-Pod design optimization and environmental simulation tests. Tests include: random vibration, sinusoidal vibration, frequency response, bake-out profile, and thermal vacuum tests.
E2O and Tata Elxsi meet and agree to enter into a strategic alliance to collaborate towards the design, development and fabrication of satellite subsystems
E2O and Semcon [India] kick-off design and development of cubesat bus (E-Bus) and the E2O Small Satellite Orbital Deployer [E-SSOD]
E2O Client, Osaka Institute of Technology (OIT), Japan submits the Interface Control Document (ICD) for review by the Antrix-ISRO PSLV team; OIT scheduled to launch PROITERES satellite onboard the PSLV in 2010
Winners announced for the 2009 Regolith Excavation Challenge held during the weekend of October 17, 2009. Prize funding of of $750,000 provided by the NASA Centennial Challenges Program. |
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E2O CEO [Asia-Pacific] meets with the head of International Business Development and the lead for HMI-Ergonomics at Semcon-Sweden, and Country Head of Semcon-India at the Semcon head quarters in Göteborg, Sweden
E2O I Bangalore identifies Cohera Automations, a high precision engineering manufacturing company, located in Whitefield, Bangalore to serve as the mechanical fabricator of the E-Pod
E2O Head of Business Development meets his counterpart at TATA Elxsi’s IDE Division to discuss a strategic alliance and to brainstorm areas of collaboration between the two companies
Earth2Orbit partners with NSL Satellites Ltd. of Israel to submit a proposal to the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) for a collaborative research project under Joint India-Israel Initiative for Industrial R&D program (i4RD) – to develop a de-orbiting mechanism technology demonstrator for satellites; The de-orbiting mechanism could be a leap forward for the satellite industry in mitigating space debris |
| AUGUST_ |
E2O signs a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with potential Vietnamese client to release mechanical drawings of the E-Pod to facilitate the client team to factor in the interface requirements with the E-Pod
Earth2Orbit Pico-Satellite Orbital Deployer (E-Pod) design and development is being carried out by E2O I Bangalore in partnership with strategic alliance Semcon [India]; Flight Model expected to be ready in January, 2010 |
| JULY_ |
E2O and M+W Zander submit detailed spatial and power estimates for ISRO’s future Astronaut Training Facility (ATF) to the head of the ETF-Division at ISAC-ISRO
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signs the End Use Monitoring (EUM) Agreement in New Delhi on 20 July that will give an unprecedented boost defense trade between the US and India
The Technology Safeguards Agreement (TSA) signed by India and the US on 20 July 2009 will expand satellite launch market and boost revenues for Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) commercial arm Antrix Corporation. This now enables launching of non-commercial civilian satellites of USA to be launched on ISRO’s Launch Vehicles.
The new dialogue architecture between the US and India also provides for logically extending the TSA to a separate Commercial Space Launch Agreement (CSLA). The CSLA shall enable launch of commercial civilian satellites of USA to be launched on ISRO’s Launch Vehicles. |
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| Astronaut Training Facility (ATF) design team (ETF-Division) at ISAC-ISRO meets E2O and M+W Zander delegates and seeks spatial and power estimates for Phase-A design of ATF in accordance with ISRO’s Human Space Program (HSP) |
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Sanket Nayak, pursuing the Master’s Program at the International Space University (ISU) in France, will begin his 3-month industry internship at E2O starting 15 May. Sanket will conduct a feasibility study to see if the Indian SRE-capsule can be adapted into a viable commercial microgravity platform for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
E2O Launch and Hardware Manager Dushyant Padia to visit Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur to hold discussions at the Mechanical Engineering Department with the JUGNU nano-satellite team regarding collaboration in the design and fabrication of Earth2Orbit’s separation mechanism (payload-rocket-adaptor) for small satellites – called the E-Pod. JUGNU will launch on the PSLV later this year.
E2O Partner Semcon launches its new facility at Whitefield in Bangalore. |
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| FSpace Laboratory, FPT Corporation, Vietnam seeks E2O services in brokering a launch for their satellite onboard the Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) via Antrix. |
| MARCH_ |
E2O Client Osaka Institute of Technology signs Launch Services Agreement (LSA) with Antrix., the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for the launch of their satellite onboard the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
M+W Zander FE (India) Pvt. Ltd., a company in the global M+W Zander Group to partner with E2O to provide design, engineering, construction, installation and commissioning services for high-tech facilities for the Indian aerospace sector.
Semcon (India) to partner with E2O to bring its extensive experience in the Swedish and German automotive industry into the design, fabrication and testing of human space systems for transportation, habitation and exploration. This includes expertise in the field of ergonomics, Human Machine Interaction (HMI) and industrial design.
E2O begins talks with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur to explore collaboration potential for the development of the E2O’s new separation mechanism, called the E-Pod.
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E2O decides to develop the E-Pod, a separation adaptor between the launch vehicle and the payload. The E-Pod will be designed and fabricated in India and will cater to payloads in the 1-10 kg range.
E2O meets with the heads of the Indian Human Space Program (HSP) and the SRE Capsule Project to discuss E2O’s expertise and offerings in the design and fabrication of crew systems and high-tech facilities to support the HSP.
E2O becomes a participating member of the Fast Forward Study Team a group, formed by SpaceWorks Engineering Inc dedicated to investigating global point-to-point high-speed travel for cargo delivery. Studies will focus on space vehicles with hypersonic propulsion. Fellow members include, among others, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Virgin Galactic, and Spaceport America.
E2O Board Member Dr. Barbara Imhof invited to give a talk about Space Architecture at Phaenomenale 2009, a Science & Art Festival held at the renowned Zaha Hadid designed Phaeno in Wolfsburg, Germany. This year’s theme was: TRAUMSCHIFF RAUMSCHIFF.
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| LIQUIFER Systems Group (LSG), Vienna to partner with E2O. LSG will bring to bear its experience in the design of crew systems and facilities for the European industry. |
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| E2O Co-Founder Susmita Mohanty invited for talk and panel discussion at the Bangalore Space Expo (BSX) 2008. Co-Speakers and Panelists include, among others, Dr. M. Annadurai, Chandrayaan-1 Project Director and Dr. A. Subramoniam, Study Director for the Indian Human Space Program (HSP). |
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| The Space Investment Summit Coalition invited E2O Co-Founder Amaresh Kollipara to deliver an opening presentation at the Space Investment Summit 6 in Los Angeles, California. Amaresh presented an overview of the commercial space industry to investors and aerospace entrepreneurs. |
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