The tired Bianca Cefalo in the corporate aviation community is in a position where she finds it easier to literally start her own space company and start objects into orbit.
Cefalo is Space pointit was launched in 2022 to detect space threats. She and her team have created a software platform called Sky-I for space technology manufacturers and operators to help them detect, interpret and attribute raw threats in orbit to natural and humans.
She spent decades in the industry working on projects that put objects on the moon and launches satellites into orbit. She’s been NASA’s Insight Mission to Mars He was a project manager for Airbus defense and space, working on satellites.
She found that industry politics and corporate bureaucracy were bottlenecks for progress. “I’m bored with the game,” she told TechCrunch.
She recalls that whenever she proposes an idea to her last employer, she encounters resistance. “The reaction was the same, ‘If it hadn’t been flying yet, we wouldn’t use it on satellites.’ “We were told to innovate, but they refused to adopt anything unproven… I was hired as an ‘innovator’ inside the corporate giant, but I was actually told’ not much. ”. ”
There, she rewritten the rules.
Cefalo said nearly 15% of spacecraft experienced some kind of anomalies or failure due to manufacturers’ misunderstandings about actual space.
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“Ground simulation can only model too much. The actual environment is more complex and every orbital regime is different,” she said.
For example, what might work in a low orbit doesn’t necessarily work in deep space. Radiation alone leads to various misfortunes that lead to spacecraft failures, while other accidents in space are considered failures or “space weather” because there is not enough data to explain what is actually happening.
“Space Points solve this problem by generating proprietary in-orbit environmental data and fusing it with external resources into real-time attribution, and is now being cast and predicted, providing the spacecraft with an intellectual edge to survive and succeed in controversial space,” she said.
Space points have captured data in their payloads (objects) and are planning to get more data from future startups. The company announced a $1.5 million seed round led by the Women Founders Foundation, the company announced Monday. Now, a total of $3.2 million has been raised.
Cefalo describes the fundraising process as “dating to Mali”, or in other words, cruel. She simply used the company’s online cold publicity form to meet her major investors with the Women Founders Foundation. She also asked Sie Ventures investors if they could give a warm overview for the FFF team.
“It turns out that both paths are blended: our application is picked up through tables and Sie is able to connect me directly with ANU.
Other investors in the round include Feel Fentures and General Electric.
As Cefalo said, the space industry is undergoing a second revolution, especially when billionaires invest millions in commercial space travel. Competitors include names such as Ensemble Space Laboratory and Mission Space.
Cefalo said her company is different because Space Point has both its hardware and software. It focuses on business, defense and threats, not just predictions. Cefalo said its software is also decentralized, which makes it “more resilient and scalable for future Cislunar and multi-track operations.
She continued: “We don’t consider space windstorm players to be zero-sum competitors. It’s an area where collaboration enhances the entire ecosystem – our intelligence can plug in and expand other services and vice versa.”
Cefalo said she will use the seed wheel to expand her team in London and the United States and prepare for the upcoming space mission. For her, the future is an opportunity to enter space, meaning shared knowledge rather than closed forces.
“The more we understand what is going on, the more we can protect what is important here: national infrastructure, civil security, navigation and defense,” she said.
“This knowledge cannot be kept locked within an institution or company; it must become a common understanding, thorough access and planetary attribution.”
