Ariel Ekblaw

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw · 29 May 2026 podcast

to these huge radiators.

And all you can do in space is radiative cooling.

It's radiative heat transfer.

If you had all of your competes.

So what we're trying to do with our decentralized tech for building things, even besides habitats, is can we use this self-assembly mechanism, put the compute that you need on an individual tile, put a solar panel that you need on that tile to get the energy you need, and on the backside is your radiator.

Right.

And so you're doing hyper-localized energy harvesting and radiative heat transfer for an AI data center.

So that's the vision for something like this that tessellates.

It's like a honeycomb.

You can finally, with this architecture, make something the size of four football fields that you could never origami up into a single rocket.

Origami is a verb.

I origami.

Do we all origami?

So we have spun out a company to do this.

So my passion for my life is habitats.

I really want to scale humans in space with this curved surface.

It's what we get taught to do.

So we spun out Rendezvous Robotics.

They're going to focus on what we call the beachhead market, so big, massive, flat things in space, like solar panels, radiators, AI data centers, maybe big communication antennas to get really big apertures, much bigger than you could have gotten, again, having to squeeze it up into a rocket.

So Rendezvous Robotics does that, and then I'm going to keep the nonprofit to do future work on space stations for human spaceflight.

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