Inside the new age of space domain awareness

In this episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Doug Hendrix, co-founder and CEO of ExoAnalytic Solutions — a company born from three physicists’ passion for solving hard problems in space. Hendrix shares how ExoAnalytic grew from missile defense algorithms to building a global telescope network that tracks thousands of objects in orbit, providing vital insights into space debris, collisions, and threats. Together, they explore how commercial innovation, AI, and automation are reshaping space domain awareness, the rising challenges of orbital congestion, and what a future space conflict might really look like. Hendrix also reflects on how science fiction and the Apollo era first inspired his lifelong pursuit of the final frontier.