Phil Larson

former Obama @whostp44, @SpaceX

[Shahin Farshchi @Farshchi]

Building fast laser comm links to space is really hard, @ObservableSpace is building them anyway

We back teams that embrace challenges most would find “too hard”

[observable.space @ObservableSpace]

The next space race is on the ground

[observable.space @ObservableSpace]

Great to be featured on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and share what we’re building at Observable Space.

@NYSE

[Baader Planetarium @baader_astro]

We are pleased to be part of Observable Space’s European expansion as a strategic partner.

Congratulations to the Observable Space team!

#BaaderPlanetarium #ObservableSpace

[Shahin Farshchi @Farshchi]

Space lasers making their way to @NYSE - most bits pushed and consumed by companies listed there will make their way through @ObservableSpace

[SpaceNews @SpaceNews_Inc]

Observable Space raises $90 million and wins Space Force contract for optical systems https://t.co/llFIgD6KsD

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

building space lasers in DETROIT

[Shahin Farshchi @Farshchi]

RF spectrum and undersea fiber built the modern Internet.

The AI era will require massive compute across Earth and space, connected not by radio, but by optical links moving data orders of magnitude faster.

Excited to back @ObservableSpace, building the future of space and terrestrial laser comms - h/t @Bloomberg

[observable.space @ObservableSpace]

Today we closed a $90 million Series A and a $94 million U.S. Space Force contract to scale the next-generation of optical infrastructure for space.

Read our official announcement here: https://t.co/SQv3gHB69a

[Bloomberg @business]

Observable Space raised $90 million in its debut funding round as the company seeks to use lasers to help satellites and potentially orbiting data centers move information to and from Earth. https://t.co/rErRj80K0S

[Bobby Braun @BobbyBraun]

Thrilled to welcome @NASAAdmin to APL today to meet our amazing people and see the exciting work they do to ensure U.S. space superiority.

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

@BobbyBraun Incredible visit to the Applied Physics Laboratory. What a team and facilities, delivering amazing spacecraft from Transit to New Horizons, Parker Solar Probe, and Dragonfly coming up next. We appreciate the partnership.

[Shahin Farshchi @Farshchi]

Undersea fiber built the internet.

Tomorrow’s AI will run on photons moving through space: across satellites, laser links, and ground stations powered by world-class optics.

[Shahin Farshchi @Farshchi]

Google + SpaceX are racing to put AI accelerators in orbit. Fine. But chips in LEO will be expensive space junk without lasercom.

The waves to catch aren’t radios, they will be the photons carrying the bits home:

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This ain’t it.

https://t.co/fsl2KEhVPT

[Shahin Farshchi @Farshchi]

Magical companies tend to concentrate in geographies. These geographies benefit from the virtuous cycle of great companies producing talent that goes on to build the next ones

I interviewed in El Segundo a year before SpaceX was founded, and left so uninspired by the aerospace establishment that I moved to Detroit to join GM. Then SpaceX changed El Segundo to the point where it now attracts the very best

Privileged to have sat down with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and her team today at Observable Space, with offices in LA and near Detroit, on seeding a talent engine and spawning tomorrow’s great tech companies in Michigan:

[Chris Williams @Astro_ChrisW]

One question I get a lot is can you see the stars differently from up in space. When we orbit on the night side of the planet, we get a view of the stars very much like being in a very dark place on Earth. And because of our orbital inclination, we get to see the stars of both the northern and southern hemisphere. I captured this shot of our galactic plane from one of the windows of the Crew Dragon Freedom that is docked to the zenith docking port.

[Rep. George Whitesides @Rep_Whitesides]

NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center and Jet Propulsion Lab are gems of American innovation and its employees, many of whom live in our region, are some of the most talented people in their field. Last year, the administration’s constant attacks on science forced hundreds from Armstrong and JPL’s workforce to the private sector.

In the @ScienceDems hearing, I made it clear that I will fight to defend Armstrong Flight Center and JPL from further cuts so that they can stay focused on their mission.

[Greg Autry🚀 @GregWAutry]

The @UCF Space Ideation Challenge will award $125,000 for YOUR ideas on effective space policy. An amazing group of judges will review the submissions and the winners will be recognized at #UCFSpaceWeek this fall. These ideas will be presented to national space leaders.

[Jeff Foust @jeff_foust]

At an event featuring both the administrator of NASA and the commissioner of the NBA. (Both know about the problems with tanking.)