Space Business Podcast #104 - James Yenbamroong, Mu Space Corp

What this episode covers

We finally have a space startup from Asia (excl. Middle East) on the podcast. Many of you probably did not know that there is a late-stage space startup in Thailand. Mu Space is a Series C stage company manufacturing smallsats and their components. I caught up with their founder & CEO James Yenbamroong in person at the Mu Space headquarter office when I passed through Bangkok this week. Enjoy! JUST OUT: Raphael's fully revised introductory book on the Space economy, "To Infinity" - https://a.co/d/6jIQ2LO Upcoming newsletter - sign up: https://spacebusiness.substack.com/ Follow us: Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/podcast_space LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphaelroettgen/ Instagram - www.instagram.com/raphael_space/ Learn more about space & the space economy: Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy There is now a certificate for those wanting to enter the space sector: https://www.spacecertificate.com The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/spacebusinesspodcast Timestamps: 0:00 Intro2:44 Elevator pitch3:09 Origin story5:54 Thai space ecosystem8:15 Supply chain and doing things from scratch9:39 Vertical integration11:42 Mu Space's satellite platforms13:04 Use cases14:40 Smallsats vs. cubesats17:00 Power18:45 More use cases21:18 On-board computing24:06 First missions27:10 Launch companies in Asia31:00 Regulatory restrictions33:34 Funding34:55 Satellite production and volume manufacturing39:08 Time from order to shipping42:00 Customers44:23 The Thai Food Space Mission 48:46 Mu Space's battery tech50:16 Trends in satellite manufacturing and lay of the land56:27 On-board propulsion systems58:58 Space-as-a-service01:01:05 Vision for Mu Space01:04:33 If James wasn't doing Mu Space, what would he do in space?01:06:25 Sci-Fi

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