When Nehal Gajjar reflects on her childhood in India, she distinctly recalls her fascination with airplanes taking off at a nearby airport. She watched and wondered, spellbound by machines in flight. Her first early desire was to master aerospace systems by becoming a pilot but then this curiosity and determination
2021 Hyperspace Challenge Alum Knight Aerospace Talks Rocket Cargo Opportunities Founded in 1992, Knight Aerospace has become one of the most reliable aerospace suppliers in the world. The company has a long-standing legacy as an industry leader for delivering mission-critical specialty air transportation that offers life-saving solutions in moments of
The Hyperspace Challenge took one giant leap for startup-kind last November, holding its first Hyperdrive Space Summit since the annual business accelerator launched in 2018. While keeping true to its core value of tight-knit collaboration, the two-day event, hosted in Albuquerque, N.M., marked a dynamic evolution of scope and scale
It was 65 years ago that the first satellite, Russia’s beach-ball sized space probe Sputnik 1, launched into Earth’s orbit. Aside from naturally-occurring meteoroids, Sputnik drifted alone in a pristine realm, like a shiny new car on a remote desert highway, only the occasional tumbleweed rolling past. Incredibly, today, low-Earth
It’s been five years since the first Hyperspace Challenge program commenced in the fall of 2018. Now, after the business accelerator has supported the work of 61 startups and universities, and dozens of government innovators, the team is asking, what’s next? Where It Started The Hyperspace Challenge began with a
Since the development of the first artificial satellite in 1957 (Sputnik), the evolution of what can be done in space by unmanned technology has gripped the imagination of engineers, scientists, and space-enthusiasts alike. Technology has made great strides since those early days and the possibilities for autonomous machines in space
