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

59 minutes Posted May 30, 2023 at 3:30 pm.

) Intro

) Winning a competition to meet Elon Musk

) This is what hyperloop really is

) Learning to build a satellite at BITS Pilani

) You probably didn't know this about satellites

) What happens to a satellite when it stops working

) Awais explains why SpaceX invests in his company

) How the government allowed a private company to build satellites

) Interning with HAL on a combat helicopter

) Monitoring the health of Earth using satellites

) Making $1 per acre from space

) Private companies are dominating the space industry

) Predicting the eruption of volcanoes from space

) Awais opens up on whether he feels left out in Bengaluru

) Awais disagrees with Elon Musk about colonizing Mars

) Conclusion

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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

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