
John Mackey
Co-founder and CEO of MBRYONICS, an Irish space-tech company developing optical and photonic communication systems for satellite networks and the "Internet of Space."
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Aug 13, 2026
An optical link ‘internet’ to connect networks in space
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David AriostoHOST
What can you tell us about timelines? You know, timelines and, and, and funding and partnerships and, you know, what's, what, what's on the horizon?

John MackeyGUEST
So we've been building towards a, a future of, you know, uh, multi-terabit per second sort of con- connectivity.

John MackeyGUEST
So it's been really the last number of years we've been building the full vertical integration tech stack.

John MackeyGUEST
So we're deploying our first missions in 2027 in various different orbits and demonstrating various different capabilities.

John MackeyGUEST
So whether that's some of the orchestration, whether that's the level of, you know, throughput.

John MackeyGUEST
Uh, one that's publicly announced is with, um, European Space Agency, uh, around a pro- called Hydron, where we teamed up with Kepler.
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David AriostoHOST
I wonder if you as, as a, as a, as a business owner and sort of a, you know, a, a developer are thinking about these things.
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John MackeyGUEST
But one of the first things we, our main discussions, actually, the three of us had when we were setting out on this was...

John MackeyGUEST
So you'll notice like most of the big space companies like Airbus or Thales Linear Space, whatever, as typically space and defense are in the title even of the companies in terms of even how they're incorporated.

John MackeyGUEST
And we always knew, I mean, I mean, space is, again, it's a global theater of operations.
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