Ariel Ekblaw
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1,219 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Jun
Ariel Ekblaw’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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big scale infrastructure and the VC fund where we invest in stuff that we spin out ourselves, internally incubated companies like Rendezvous Robotics, but we also invest in best in class companies across the space industry like Stoke and Northwood and Turion Space and Lambda Vision and others.
I do.
Architecture?
I try to make sure that I spend some time with my team on a regular basis at our fabrication facility where we are designing the prototypes of things like self-assembling tiles and
So the idea behind tesserae, which is my MIT PhD thesis, is you can design a modular tile.
In our case, they're shaped like hexagons and pentagons.
Put powerful little magnets on their edges, toss them up into space.
When they're floating, the magnets pull them together.
So we work on iterative prototype development of that system.
It's now being taken forward by Rendezvous Robotics.
But we have a collaboration where we are supporting their most recent mission with NASA that's going to fly in July of this year.
It's still my passion is to really do the technical work for space hardware that's actually really going to fly, that's going to go orbital.
So I would not want my career to take me away from that entirely.
Yeah, they've gone twice.
Yes.
They do.
I know it looks really wild when you're watching it because it's so counterintuitive from our sense of how gravity works on Earth.
But when you're in zero G, when you're in microgravity, because you're in free fall around a planet when you're inside that International Space Station, yeah, the tiles pop together.
You just release them.
They fly towards each other kind of gingerly.
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