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Why We Invested in (our second) Rocket Company

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9 years ago

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My first full-time job was in the space business. In 1992, I had just earned my master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and moved to a suburb of Philadelphia to work at the Astro Space division of General Electric (now part of Lockheed Martin).I worked on two satellites – Echostar, and AsiaSat-2. Both were direct broadcast satellites, meaning that they were designed for broadcasting digital television signals from geostationary orbit. Geostationary...

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