Interview with carbon-carbon printer, artificial solar sun schemer, space robotics guru, and future-space pirate Cole Nielsen-Cole, CTO of Orbital Composites.
0:00 Founding inspiration
4:53 Similarity between drones & satellites
6:20 Why Carbon Fiber is hard
9:42 Heat treatment for rocket nozzles
14:38 Cole’s artificial sun
16:59 List everything you’re doing
21:28 What first inspired you?
24:44 More projects
27:58 Orbital & Artemis mission
30:39 Why care about Mars?
35:10 How do you focus?
36:14 Hardest challenge
38:17 What does deep tech get wrong?
40:26 The inspiration problem
42:56 How do you think?
46:55 Why build hard things?