Building Indian Satellites, Meeting Elon Musk, And Spacetech | Dostcast W/ Awais Ahmed Dostcast podcast

Building Indian Satellites, Meeting Elon Musk, and Spacetech | Dostcast w/ Awais Ahmed

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Vinamre Kasanaa द्वारा प्रदान की गई सामग्री. एपिसोड, ग्राफिक्स और पॉडकास्ट विवरण सहित सभी पॉडकास्ट सामग्री Vinamre Kasanaa या उनके पॉडकास्ट प्लेटफ़ॉर्म पार्टनर द्वारा सीधे अपलोड और प्रदान की जाती है। यदि आपको लगता है कि कोई आपकी अनुमति के बिना आपके कॉपीराइट किए गए कार्य का उपयोग कर रहा है, तो आप यहां बताई गई प्रक्रिया का पालन कर सकते हैं https://hi.player.fm/legal।

Awais Ahmed is the founder and CEO of Pixxel, a space technology start-up. He was part of BITS Pilani's official student nano-satellite team, 'Team Anant'. In 2017, he was one of the finalists of the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2017.

In this podcast,

▸ Vinamre and Awais talk about why Elon Musk is wrong about colonizing Mars.

▸ How Awais splits his time between LA and Bengaluru

▸ How much resistance he had to face as private space company from ISRO

Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(1:01) Winning a competition to meet Elon Musk

(2:27) This is what hyperloop really is

(9:56) Learning to build a satellite at BITS Pilani

(11:12) You probably didn't know this about satellites

(14:36) What happens to a satellite when it stops working

(18:19) Awais explains why SpaceX invests in his company

(25:02) How the government allowed a private company to build satellites

(31:02) Interning with HAL on a combat helicopter

(32:33) Monitoring the health of Earth using satellites

(39:42) Making $1 per acre from space

(44:22) Private companies are dominating the space industry

(48:24) Predicting the eruption of volcanoes from space

(50:10) Awais opens up on whether he feels left out in Bengaluru

(55:22) Awais disagrees with Elon Musk about colonizing Mars

(57:14) Conclusion

Listen to the audio version of the full podcasts at -

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/70vrbHeSvrcXyOeISTyBSy?si=eZQk7N3_QOmvOfu0umGjzg

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Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/dostcast/id1538251790

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