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Making galactic scale ambitions a reality is notoriously hard. Hence the famous, "the best way to become a millionaire in the space industry is to start as a billionaire" quote. But I find the strategic sequencing one of the most fun challenges. When you have a big vision for space, how do you break that goal it into the right size chunks to actually make sustaining revenue while moving along the most critical derisking points in the operational path? That has led us to "unsexy" problems that matter enough to build a 185,000 sqft factory around! It's gratifying to feel the momentum of this flywheel reward us with more scope and more resources to run even faster. Thanks for coming by for a first look at the factory @MollySOShea !

Molly O’Shea @MollySOShea

6 days ago

“There's enthusiasm around compute use cases & IoT & other future industries moving to space. But the reality is—that's not space today.” @bridgitmendler says SpaceX’s IPO has created a ton of momentum & new ideas in the space industry, but companies like @NorthwoodSpace still

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It’s exciting to finally announce what Northwood has been working on behind the scenes – the newest addition to our network, Prism, which will support high throughput comms through space. When we first founded Northwood, the pressing problem in front of us was the sheer volume of spacecraft that needed to be coordinated and successfully operate in a new dynamic environment. This led to our first offering, Portal, which has changed spacecraft link access on many important dimensions. We can now fit the equivalent of ten 7.4 meter dishes, providing multi-orbit link capacity, into a single 20ft ISO shipping container that can be manufactured in weeks, shipped over air freight, and stood up in hours. A capacity shortfall that looked like it would take years to resolve now has a solution for how to hit scale. Our second offering is about envisioning the next set of challenges for space. As more of our economy moves to orbit, we need to design networking that meets or beats terrestrial performance. Prism is designed for the next step in expectations around throughput, latency and reliability. This is true industrialization of space networks. Our solution here was also baked from first principles — a mixture of old and new. Northwood’s vision for high throughput networking is high frequency RF (today meeting customers in S/X/Ka, and in next version will be 100gbps+), a standard 2.4 meter building block that deploys in hours and can be digitally combined to adjust for different orbits and resiliency conditions (need to keep piping data to customers when it’s raining? We got you). The real thing I want to celebrate is the pace of development that Northwood continues to set. In 2.5 years, we have: - Sprinted through three block changes of Portal - Gone from clean sheet to deployed Prism unit in 6 months - Deployed a total of 14 antennas across 2 continents, at 5 sites with another 13 sites across 8 countries underway These accomplishments are our data points that there’s no space networking problem too big for us and the best is yet to come! Huge shoutout to Mariko McMurty and Kiran Raj who each lead a portion of our Prism product and the whole of company effort across digital, RF/EE, mechanical, manufacturing and production, supply chain and logistics, sites and network operations. Let’s keep building!

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Northwood @NorthwoodSpace

3 months ago

Today we're expanding our network to support the things spacecraft actually need to do now: high-volume enterprise backhaul, direct-to-cellular communications, compute in space. northwoodspace.io/blog/prismhigh…

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@bridgitmendler so sorry your privacy was invaded on. were here always and will wait until your time 🤍

thank you for your support it really means so much <3 i'm sorry we had to take the music down, we'll find a way to do it the right way

Bridgit Mendler says the EP surprise release on her Spotify page today was not her: “sorry to disappoint everyone, the spotify release wasn't me! when it is, trust me, you'll know ;)”

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@bridgitmendler

@bridgitmendler RETURN TO US

@bridgitmendler i’ll wait until the end of time

@bridgitmendler teasing for 14 years since an album respect to that

when it is, trust me, you'll know ;)

sorry to disappoint everyone, the spotify release wasn't me!

@bridgitmendler did someone hack you 😩😩😩 i feel bad for replaying it now 🙊🙊

Congratulations @ambrosiaenergy and @sara_spangelo !!

Ambrosia Energy @ambrosiaenergy

3 months ago

We are building solar + battery power plants, off-grid to start. 100% renewable. 99.9% availability. Grateful to our early backer @dfjgrowth. Read more about Ambrosia from DFJ: dfjgrowth.com/story/ambrosia…

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not @bridgitmendler casually dropping her unreleased 14 years later GIRL WERE SAT

🚨 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 BRIDGIT MENDLER IS BACK!!!!!!! open.spotify.com/album/2VkQZz3j…

The space economy has a ground infrastructure problem. You can build a satellite and launch it faster than you can connect with it from Earth. Bridgit Mendler is building Northwood to fix that — deploying ground infrastructure in 3 months instead of 3 years. She joins a16'z Erik Torenberg to talk about vertical integration, the $50M Space Force contract, and why space is like the early internet: 00:00 Introduction 6:10 The ground segment bottleneck 10:06 Pandemic antenna origins 13:18 Three months, not three years 18:19 Starlink is not a threat 23:48 The space economy market map 29:45 The Space Force contract 36:03 Culture and values @bridgitmendler @eriktorenberg @NorthwoodSpace

Underrated way to go fast is to be ok with saying the perceived dumb thing that is blocking you from an outcome. One of the things that our team is proudest of is cultivating humility/approachability. To be on a team that is entirely focused on the goal and not defending ego it is liberating. Thanks for having me @TheFP + @SulkinMaya !

everyone else was at the kids choice awards and she was at the oscars.

Ezzy @ezzyskii

6 months ago

Hold up, this was a disney channel movie?? wild.

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Woohoo go Mike!

Mike Annunziata @nunzi46

6 months ago

We’re back with round 2! Announcing @CapitalAlso’s second fund, $50M to catalyze founders solving hard problems Was a ton of fun breaking the news with @tbpn @jordihays @johncoogan 🙏 We’ll share more detail tomorrow, but for now we made this graphic to celebrate 🚀

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@bridgitmendler If you are in need of an english girl working for you hit me up !😂😂