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CEO & Co-Founder
Jim Cantrell is the CEO & Co-Founder of Phantom Space, a company democratizing access to space by building mass-manufactured rockets, satellites, and space propulsion systems.
Prior to Phantom, Jim was a founding team member and Vice President of Business at SpaceX, with internet pioneer Elon Musk, where he helped develop technical concepts, markets, and overall corporate and product development strategy. His career also includes assignments at the French Space Agency CNES, the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, and includes the founding of several entrepreneurial space startups and teams, such as Moon Express, StratSpace, and Vintage Exotics Competition Engineering. StratSpace worked on nearly 50 successful space missions and satellite programs, and as acquired by Phantom.
Jim received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State University, he also worked as a research engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Here, he worked on Mars exploration technologies, including several Mars rover missions.
3:11 chasing balloons around the desert. Was this a peyote thing? 7:50 Mars like terrain 10:02 Is the Earth really flat? 13:08 people thought I was a traitor, because I'd worked with the Soviets so nobody would hire me 15:39 …
0:35 SpaceX and Elon Musk 1:02 the US government...ICBMs to not carry nuclear weapons, but instead carry satellites into orbit. S Unknown Speaker 2:45 went into my study in called Elon back 5:28 there was a guy named Bob Zubrin …
0:00 Blue Origin.... that relates... to SpaceX 2:45 SpaceX had like 7000 satellites 6:00 Now, they want to launch closer to the earth. The reason you launch them higher, is not because of the performance, generally, the performance degrades, because...