EraDrive and Building Autonomy in Space
Sumant Sharma, co-founder and CEO of EraDrive, joins Mat to explain why the satellites circling Earth today are effectively blind and micromanaged from the ground, and why that model breaks the moment constellations scale into the thousands. EraDrive spun out of the Stanford Space Rendezvous Laboratory in 2025, but its core vision-based navigation software was already flying first, demonstrated on four NASA CubeSats as part of the Starling mission, the world's first instance of multiple satellites navigating relative to each other using vision alone. That reverse order, technology in orbit…
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