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The Aerospace Engineering Podcast
by Rainer Groh – Aerospace Engineer and Researcher
Conversations with aerospace pioneers
Episodes
#49 – 9T Labs is Producing High-Performance Composite Materials Through 3D Printing
2 Mar 2021 · 33 min
Martin Eichenhofer is the CEO & co-founder of 9T Labs, a company that was spun out of ETH Zürich in Switzerland. 9T Labs specialises in providing software solutions and manufacturing equipment for producing high-quality and high-performance composite materials using 3D printing. By marrying the…
#48 – Engineering Complex Systems for Harsh Environments with First Mode
16 Feb 2021 · 59 min
Chris Voorhees is the founder and president of First Mode, a Seattle-based company that is designing and building technology for extreme environments off and on planet Earth. Chris has decades of experience in the implementation of robotic systems for the exploration of deep space. His notable…
#47 – Möbius Aero and MμZ Motion: a winning team for electric air racing
4 Feb 2021 · 49 min
Carl Copeland is the founder of Möbius Aero, an electric air race team, and MμZ Motion, a developer of custom, high-performance electric motors. Carl has built various engineering teams and led innovation in the fields of IT, mechanical, magnetic, and electrical design. He has founded four…
#46 – Tow-steered composite materials with iCOMAT Ltd
22 Jan 2021 · 30 min
Dr Evangelos Zympeloudis is the CEO and co-founder of iCOMAT, a company based in the UK that is developing automated manufacturing equipment for tow-steered composite materials. Fibre-reinforced plastics, such as carbon-fibre or glass-fibre composites, hold great promise for high-performance and…
#45 – Industrialising rocket science with Rocket Factory Augsburg
4 Dec 2020 · 37 min
Stefan Brieschenk is the Chief Operating Officer of Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), a company in the south of Germany that is developing a low-cost launch vehicle. RFA’s vision is to drastically reduce the cost of access to space through large-scale industrialisation of their operations and…
#44 – Airflow is Building an eSTOL Aircraft for Middle-Mile Logistics
18 Nov 2020 · 36 min
Marc Ausman is the co-founder and CEO of Airflow, a California-based startup that is building an electric short-haul cargo aircraft. Marc holds a commercial pilot license, and among other endeavours, was previously the Chief Strategist for Airbus’ all-electric, tilt-wing vehicle demonstrator known…
#43 – Dr John Williams on Air-Breathing Rocket Engines
27 Oct 2020 · 31 min
Dr John Williams is an engineer at Lumentum where he works on the extreme challenges of sub-millimetre scale photonic circuits. For the purpose of this conversation, however, we will be discussing John’s former role as a design engineer at Reaction Engines, a UK company that is developing the…
#42 – Autonomous Helicopters with Near Earth Autonomy
13 Oct 2020 · 37 min
Dr Sanjiv Singh is a research professor at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University and the CEO of Near Earth Autonomy. Sanjiv has more than 30 years of research experience in the field of autonomous vehicles and has spun-out multiple companies from his university research. His current…
#41 – Alpine Advanced Materials and the Ultralight Nanocomposite Material HX5™
25 Sept 2020 · 31 min
In this episode I am speaking to Aaron Daniel and Peter Shpik of Alpine Advanced Materials. Alpine Advanced Materials specialises in the design and manufacture of custom-engineered parts and products for demanding aerospace and energy applications. The company is currently commercialising a…
#40 – Earth-observation Satellite Constellations with SatRevolution
16 Sept 2020 · 34 min
In this episode I am speaking to Damian Jamroz and Grzegorz Marzec of the Polish NewSpace company SatRevolution. The company was founded in 2016 and specialises in real-time earth observation for civilian and military applications. SatRevolution has launched three satellites to date, with the last…
#39 – Exosonic is Developing a Low Boom Supersonic Passenger Aircraft
7 Sept 2020 · 34 min
Norris Tie is the CEO of Exosonic, a California-based startup that is developing a low sonic boom supersonic passenger aircraft. Norris holds an engineering degree from UCLA, an MBA from Stanford, and before starting Exosonic worked on supersonic aircraft at Northrup Grumman, Virgin Galactic and…
#38 – Momentus is Developing a Transfer Vehicle for Space
19 May 2020 · 29 min
Alexander Wicks is the Chief Development Officer at the California-based startup Momentus Space. Momentus is developing the in-space equivalent of the connecting flight we all know from airline operations. To affordably launch small satellites into orbit, operators and manufacturers of small…
#37 – Anomalous is Using AI to Make Inspection More Accurate
1 May 2020 · 28 min
Today I am speaking with Euan Wielewski, co-founder and CEO at Anomalous Technologies. Anomalous is a start-up based in Edinburgh, Scotland that uses the latest machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to enable better quality control of manufactured components. As aerospace…
#36 – ZeroAvia is Powering Sustainable Aviation with Hydrogen
21 Mar 2020 · 35 min
Sergey Kiselev is the Head of Europe of the sustainable aviation company ZeroAvia. ZeroAvia is working on the first practical zero-emission aviation powertrain fuelled by hydrogen. Even though CO2 emissions of the aviation industry currently only account for 2-3% of the global output, passenger…
#35 – Astroscale's Pioneering Mission to Clean-Up Space Debris
28 Jan 2020 · 27 min
Alexandra Gravereaux is a Ground Systems Engineer for the space startup Astroscale. Astroscale is a global company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan with offices in the UK, Singapore and the USA, and is developing technological and regulatory solutions for space debris removal. The mission of…
#34 – Aerospace Startups and the ATI Boeing Accelerator
18 Dec 2019 · 40 min
Wil Benton is the Venture & Ecosystem Director for the ATI Boeing Accelerator in London. The Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) is a UK organisation that creates the technology strategy for the UK aerospace sector and funds world-class research and development. The ATI recently launched a…
#33 – Black Arrow's Vision for a Seaborne Launch Capability and STEM Engagement
4 Dec 2019 · 41 min
Paul Williams is the Executive Director of the British startup Black Arrow Space Technologies. Black Arrow is developing a sea-borne launch capability based on their current expertise in developing composite propellant tanks for satellites. The launching of rockets from ships has a previous…
#32 – Air-to-Air Refuelling and Higher Education Engineering Reform with Dr Steve Bullock
20 Nov 2019 · 41 min
Dr Steve Bullock is an engineering researcher in air-to-air refuelling and cooperative control of UAVs, as well as the Programme Director of the Aerospace Engineering programme at the University of Bristol. As the programme director of a leading European aerospace engineering programme, Steve has…
#31 – VR in the Aerospace Industry with Mbryonic Founder Tom Szirtes
28 Oct 2019 · 30 min
Tom Szirtes is the founder and director of Mbryonic, a London-based digital design studio. Mbryonic specialises in creating virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality experiences that help organisations communicate, educate and entertain more effectively. Apart from the traditional…
#30 – Digitisation at Rolls Royce and the Information Vanguard Conference
4 Oct 2019 · 20 min
Today I am talking to Gareth Hetheridge, the Interim Head of IT at Rolls Royce, and Luca Leone, a Team Defence Information Task Force Consultant about the UK defence industry. Team Defence Information (TD-Info) is a collaborative association that informs defence information policy and pilots new…