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John Mackey

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."

Aug 13, 2026

20:37
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?
20:44
Sure.
20:45
So we've been building towards a, a future of, you know, uh, multi-terabit per second sort of con- connectivity.
20:51
So it's been really the last number of years we've been building the full vertical integration tech stack.
20:57
So we're deploying our first missions in 2027 in various different orbits and demonstrating various different capabilities.
21:03
So whether that's some of the orchestration, whether that's the level of, you know, throughput.
21:08
Uh, one that's publicly announced is with, um, European Space Agency, uh, around a pro- called Hydron, where we teamed up with Kepler.

8 MINS LATER

29:29
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.
14:02
Well, look,
14:03
it can be a little bit of a sensitive topic.
14:04
But one of the first things we, our main discussions, actually, the three of us had when we were setting out on this was...
14:11
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.
14:20
And we always knew, I mean, I mean, space is, again, it's a global theater of operations.
14:26
It's always going to be, it's a sensitive area of operations.
14:29
So we always knew the dual use piece was going to be intrinsic to this.

22 MINS LATER

37:00
Well,

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