Welcome back to T3 Talks! This week, Sam and Austin are thrilled to sit down with Jef Smith, CEO and Founder of Astra Ultra, and Kaylee Barcroft, Junior Software Developer. They give os the low down and the cool space stuff Astra Ultra is working on here at the Innovation Hub. We get to know more about finding a shared passion for space, the importance of problem identification when looking at starting a business, and why space technology becoming humdrum and common is great for all of us. Jef gives us insight into the path into the SDA TAP Lab's Apollo Accelerator, helps define LSTMs, Transformers, and TLEs, and talks co-orbital kinetic kill vehicles and how crucial it is to reduce threat response lag in orbit.

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