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Kelly Litzner

Kelly Litzner

Director of Commercial Programs at The Aerospace Corporation, expert in orbital data centers and commercial space technology.

Jun 11, 2026

45:15
How quickly can you synthesize imagery from multiple space vehicles, create an operating picture, and make some decisions about what you're seeing happen on Earth?
45:27
Yeah, and if I could just jump in on that, great points both, but I'll flip the economic question to one of value.
45:35
If you broaden your aperture and you don't think power, when you're on Earth and there's a data center a mile away like there is here, it's not going to be faster to send it to space.
45:45
But when you're going space to space or space to deeper space or deep space back, that's really important.
45:52
When you start getting into military applications and you talk about the famous OODA loop and making those decisions, you get to speed and processing power.
46:00
And the more you can process in space and the less you have to send down to the Earth and the faster you can send it directly when you're halfway around the world versus processing back in Virginia and then going back up to space and back down, all those things add value to something that... may not be economically feasible when you're just talking about a commercial use case.
46:19
Having said that, you run into a chicken and the egg problem because the government is very much commercial forward right now and the government economically would like to buy this as a service.

9 MINS LATER

55:50
And I think there are questions about whether or not data centers will be able to provide the resilience in numbers, but will they provide the data security and resilience that's necessary there? So I wanted to hear a little bit more about how you and your team are thinking about national security applications here and what and how they could be useful and kind of what what you still need to see for it's going to be sold on that

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