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John Gedmark holds a BS in aerospace engineering from Purdue University and an MS in aerospace engineering from Stanford University, both with a focus on rocket propulsion. He co-founded and led the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, the industry association that helped shape the policies enabling companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic, and earlier served as Director of Rocket Flight Operations for the X Prize Foundation, with prior aerospace experience at Aerojet, Ball Aerospace, and TRW. He founded Astranis in 2015 with Ryan McLinko to build small, low-cost MicroGEO geostationary broadband satellites, and serves as CEO. Under his leadership Astranis launched its first commercial satellite in 2023.
Ryan McLinko earned bachelor's and master's degrees in aerospace engineering from MIT, where his master's thesis covered the structural design of low-cost, rapid-development satellites. Before co-founding Astranis, he was a spacecraft engineer and mechanical/electrical team lead at Planet Labs, where he helped design and build a fleet of imaging cubesats, and a systems engineer at Sierra Nevada Corporation working on flight control systems for the Dream Chaser vehicle; he also interned at SpaceX and United Launch Alliance. He co-founded Astranis with John Gedmark in 2015 and serves as CTO, leading the engineering of the company's compact, software-defined geostationary satellites.
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MicroGEO is Astranis's compact geostationary communications satellite, roughly 400 kg and about one-twentieth the mass of a traditional GEO spacecraft. Built around a software-defined payload, each satellite is dedicated to a single region or customer, delivering broadband capacity to areas underserved by terrestrial and large-satellite networks. The smaller size lets multiple MicroGEOs ride-share to orbit, cutting cost and time-to-service. Astranis manufactures the satellites in-house in San Francisco and operates them as a managed connectivity service for telecom, government, and enterprise customers.
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