147: The Creation Story of ThinkOrbital with Sebastian Asprella and Vojtech Holub

This episode is an amazing story about the Commercialization of Cislunar Space by a company named ThinkOrbital. It's also the story of how two talented people were bold enough to share their innovative idea to design something…different, better, and for all space explorers.

Co-Founders Sebastian Asprella and Dr. Vojtech Holub met on Discord during COVID, and soon found that by applying their interests and talents together in a big way, a big idea for a single-launch space station could become a reality. And thus, ThinkOrbital was born! One of Beth's favorite ThinkOrbital long-term objectives is that they look to explore customers beyond "traditional" space users, promoting the quality of business, research and recreational scope available in space! Today on this Casual Space Podcast episode, Sebastian and Vojtech walk us through their concept to create a novel space station that is scalable, modular and can be deployed with a single launch to be assembled on-orbit. Wow.

About Sebastian Asprella: Think Orbital Co-Founder, CEO Sebastian brings 25 years of leadership and intrapreneurship experience across business management and IT sectors. With a background in electromechanics and business administration, Sebastian has been working for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) since 2001 starting from business administration to heading complex multinational digitalization programs. Sebastian has previously consulted on business development for EnergyX, while his early career experience ranges across telecom and oil and gas sectors.

About Vojtech Holub, Ph.D.: Think Orbital Co-Founder, CTO Vojtech brings 13 years of research and development and software engineering experience, along with research expertise in aerospace engineering. Vojtech holds over 20 patents and has published 17 conference and journal papers. His paper published in the AIAA's Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets has served as a founding thesis for ThinkOrbital's Commercial Space Station design.

About ThinkOrbital https://thinkorbital.com/

ThinkOrbital is designing and delivering the premier commercial low Earth orbit destination with a mission to accelerate exploration of cislunar space. They have developed a concept based on mature technologies available today, to create a novel space station that is scalable, modular and can be deployed with a single launch to be assembled on-orbit.

Other Happenings:

James Webb Space Telescope?!?! Here's a great video about JWST launch and deployment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ihVeEoUdo

Launch Schedules! https://www.space.com/32286-space-calendar.html

Dylan Taylor launches on Blue Origin! Here's my conversation with Dylan from earlier this year; https://www.bethmund.com/casual-space-podcast/2020/12/17/101-dylan-taylor

And here's another great conversation with Dylan and Frank White! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlU76UuDxjA