Will Marshall
speaker
244 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Will Marshall’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't think we should rely on that.
I think we need more robust mechanisms, but I think that could be part of the answer.
Everything from the rockets to the satellites, communications is a big one.
The idea of all that up is around $300 billion a year.
We actually started a project called Phonesat because my colleague at NASA kept on holding up his phone
Because it was pretty new at the time.
The first iPhone had come out and they were like, these new smartphones have a lot of what you need in a satellite.
They have batteries and they have sensors and they have cameras and they have fast processors.
They even have GPS to know where they are.
They're kind of incredible.
And it's all stuffed in a little box and it costs 500 bucks.
This led Marshall to ask himself an obvious question.
Why are we spending $500 million on satellites?
What are the extra six zeros doing for us?
literally in a garage.
We leveraged smartphones.
And we plonked the satellite down on the desk of the venture capitalist that we went to see, as opposed to have any PowerPoint deck.
That was certainly a shock to people.
And enough people were crazy enough to give us a check.
We've got the record for the most satellites put into space.
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