Tell us about the sheer infrastructure and technological feat you are trying to take on here. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you guys very much for having me. Really excited to be here. Yeah, I think, you know, for space companies, you are running a business that is completely reliant upon connectivity, but connectivity with space is stuck in a different era where you anticipate outages or you find very expensive and cumbersome solutions for outages in a way that would be completely unacceptable in other industrialized sectors. We were actually talking to a space company yesterday that had their contact time just slipped out from under them at the last minute. And so it's really hard to think of how to deliver a reliable business to your customers under those conditions. And so we're excited to really change the expectations for space companies where you have this always-on reliable and frankly, dynamic satellite connectivity that you would expect of your power grid or of your cell phones.

And so we think that this is a huge opportunity space, and our first contribution to it is through shared infrastructure, through phaser antennas, which offer a ten X improvement on availability for satellite operators, along with a lot of other exciting features explained earlier in the program. Antenna arrays have not really been touched since the 1960s. But you know what they are? I mean, if you were ever lucky enough to drive past one and you kind of marvel still at the romance of space infrastructure. But I guess the point is, is that for all of the expansion of Constellation that's happening above our heads, you got to have it. What is different about your antenna? Like what? What is different about what you're offering? Yeah, I mean, the model that we are aiming for is something that is scalable, as you all said, that can be deployed swiftly, that can be really

responsive to changing needs that can be placed in more dynamic locations. So, you know, we're envisioning a system where you could be on a rooftop or it could be in a parking lot or it could be, you know, in some austere location. This first demo that we did, it was deployed in 6 hours. That was our very first time bringing it out into the field. So we're excited to bring that time down even further. We built our very first system in four months, so we're looking to, you know, bring that timeframe down even further as well. And so, you know, when you think about cell tower infrastructure and that expansion globally of infrastructure that enables the cellular industry, that's the kind of scale that we need for space to accomplish all of these super exciting missions that have been talked about today and that we're seeing pop up day after day. Can you give us a sense of time frames,

how long it took from a standing start to demo and how quickly from demo to getting it out there into the world? Yeah. So for Northwood, we really prioritize bringing on the right people, the right parts, and the right processes. So we've focused on building a team of people that are exceptionally experienced in their respective field. We've sourced parts from different corners of different industries that are traditionally used within the aerospace sector. So we have kind of those timeline and cost advantages. And then in terms of processes, we're really focusing on a design for manufacturing methodology so that we can build things swiftly, have things really consolidated into modular units, and just approach that differently. So for us in our first iteration, you know, this was from the very beginnings of the design phase all the way through, you know, sourcing those parts, assembling those parts, testing it, and then getting it deployed. That was that four months time frame. And frankly, if there weren't some

persnickety board vendors. We could have been a lot faster. Okay. So is that the holdup? Is it regulatory? You come from having experienced the government side before, but building in the private side. What are some of the bugbears? Yeah, I mean, I think I think it's really the stuff that we're just trying to systematically embed in what we're doing, which is the method of engineering, of being designed for manufacture. We already had a ten x improvement on our assembly times based off of that first iteration that we've built. We already are able to improve that by ten X and the parts that we're sourcing from our supply chain, you know, to date fully us and it's a supply chain that is actually able to be really flexible in timeframes. And so your customers will be SpaceX X and Amazon or Defense. Well, the cool thing about the ground segment, I would say, is it's kind of

like the S&P 500 or the space industry. If the market's going up, my ground is going up because every satellite, every different spacecraft mission requires ground connectivity. So, you know, whether it's a launch operator who's needing to have more flexible and responsive times or different pad locations, or whether it's the satellite operators that are on board that are wanting to make sure that if there is, you know, a schedule slip in a launch, that they can still make all of their contacts with this satellite that they have invested their blood, sweat and tears in and a lot of money for a lot of years to get up there. But I think, you know, the responsive and dynamic space missions like, you know, Gokul was just speaking about a moment ago in terms of going in different orbits. That's a really exciting space. I think comms use cases are similarly very exciting applications. Especially when you're wanting to have lower latency, greater availability and

resiliency. So, I mean, I know that's kind of avoiding the answer, but it's kind of gross across the board.

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