Hamid Soorghali

Connecting space-based infrastructure and services to the downstream industries | Building @ Elethron | Strategy @SatAppsCatapult | @SOAS & @AberUni alumnus

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Absolutely incredible.

In an unprecedented move, South Korea's stock market just collapsed -44% in 40 days, erasing -$2 trillion in market cap.

Now, South Korea's finance ministry has announced plans to "stabilize" the market.

What is happening? Let us explain.

(a thread)

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

A sad day but few care, especially the British right obsessed by the ECHR and its faux threats to British sovereignty. Today we lost ITV to US media group Comcast and EasyJet to US private credit company, Castlelake. Britain is ever more a vassal economy in thrall to the USA.

[Hamid Soorghali @soorghali]

Pleased to share this milestone for Elethron as we build our team and capability in microgravity materials R&D and in-space production.

[Satellite Evolution @satelliteevo]

Elethron and ATMOS Space Cargo complete engineering collaboration to advance microgravity R&D and in‑space production for advanced materials. Read the full story: https://t.co/MKucUPDkTn #Space #Microgravity #SpaceIndustry #LEO #R&D

[Financial Times @FT]

The flow of liquefied natural gas from the Gulf is expected to come to an abrupt end in the next 10 days https://t.co/lZtRVNOjF1

[Hamid Soorghali @soorghali]

What’s happening in the fast-evolving landscape of in-space R&D? Join our panel exploring what it will take to build a scalable microgravity market. Featuring speakers from @ISS_CASIS, @redwire, @SpaceFactories, 12:45 BST | Hosts @SATApps & @esaBSGN https://t.co/3i9Q2u4KKt

[Hamid Soorghali @soorghali]

I have huge respect for Pierre. While I’m an optimist by instinct, I’ll take the disciplined thinking and realism of analysts like Pierre over the hockey-stick dreamers any day. We’re at a stage in the industry where truth-seekers do far more good than the hype-cycle crowd.

[Joe Morrison @mouthofmorrison]

Pierre Lionnet and Tim Farrar can be cranky but you know they’re truth seeking and do not play favorites. Spend the time watching history repeat itself enough, and you might wind up a little less accommodating, too.

[The past time woman @Thepasttimew]

At times, the end is what arrives first.

[Marsh's Library @MarshsLibrary]

The drawing room of Irish novelist, travel writer & salonnière, Lady Morgan, née Sydney Owenson (1776-1859) from her autobiography, printed in 1859 #WomenWriters

[Hamid Soorghali @soorghali]

From next-gen semiconductors for photonic chips to superalloys for aerospace, we’re backing deep tech teams using microgravity for serious breakthroughs.
Apply now via ESA's Advanced Materials Accelerator ↓
Blog: https://t.co/ztM54YkJDd

[Satellite Applications Catapult @SatAppsCatapult]

We're pleased to announce the call for proposals for the BSGN Advanced Materials Accelerator is now open! The Accelerator leverages space-based R&D for product development, innovation, and technological advancement.

Find out more:https://t.co/pSN7bneapL

[Joe Morrison @mouthofmorrison]

The five stages of reckoning with an industry:
1. Study it
2. Work in it
3. Loudly try to change it
4. Quietly try to change it
5. Silently exploit it

[Kongsberg NanoAvionics @NanoAvionics]

Proving critical space-based voice & data communications between pilots and air traffic controllers is no easy task. In preparation, Startical's IOD.2 satellite went through a lot in the last few weeks:

— Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing
— Vibration testing
— Thermal Vacuum testing
— Payload antenna & solar panel deployments and more

In just over a year since project kick-off, IOD.2 is nearly ready for launch, with just a final round of functional testing remaining, thanks to the efficient collaboration between our customers and partners from Startical, @IndraCompany, @ENAIRE, @OxfordSpace, @intaespana, and others.

Soon, IOD.2 will head out for its mid-year launch as a pathfinder for Startical's planned 288-satellite air traffic management and ADS-B surveillance constellation.

Our MP42 microsatellite bus continues to set the standard as an effective platform for demanding missions requiring high performance and agile program execution for commercial and governmental customers in communication, Earth observation, and remote sensing.

— Join our March 19 webinar "Rethinking SmallSat Reliability" to learn how to balance reliability, cost & schedule in small satellite missions.

Register in the comments below.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

that sounds a lot like…rejoining
#bregret

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would take a leading supercomputer over 10^25 years, far beyond the age of the universe(!).

[Frederik Ducrozet @fwred]

🇪🇺 The most depressing European chart ever: long-term growth expectations are down to a all-time low of less than 1.3%.
Draghi: "Europe faces a choice between paralysis, exit or integration. Exit has been tried. Paralysis is becoming untenable. Integration is our only hope left."

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

The case for corporation tax reform in this one chart, from @TaxFoundation. Corporate tax revenues (% of GDP) along the horizontal axis, corporate tax competitiveness along the vertical

Many countries raise as much tax as us, but do it better and simpler.

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

Half of London has this bug where they feel really nauseous and unwell for about a week, not hungry, weak and shivery. No cold. Negative for Covid. Anyone got any idea what this is?

[Andrew Parsonson @AndrewParsonson]

ESA awards @PangeaAerospace a contract to design a high-thrust rocket engine for future European heavy and super-heavy launchers.
https://t.co/l6eIcp7xvI

[The Space Investor 🚀 @SpaceInvestor_]

News: @Axiom_Space Facing Financial Headwinds
• "The lack of fresh capital has exacerbated long-standing financial challenges that have grown alongside Axiom’s payroll, which earlier this year was nearly 1,000 employees.”

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

Mario Draghi's report on European competitiveness -- the key message on energy states the very often ignored obvious: "High energy costs in Europe are an obstacle to growth"

Executive summary (69 pages): https://t.co/pKy3rSXBd1

Full report (328 pages): https://t.co/QQs0UE1iOd

[Simone Tagliapietra @Tagliapietra_S]

Draghi suggests avoiding black-and-white industrial policy solutions. He rejects the temptation to emulate the US approach of systematically shutting out Chinese clean tech, and suggests to deploy smart and technology-specific green industrial policies.

https://t.co/d2u4Dv48Rs