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Ashi Dissanayake Wants Spacecraft to Stop Dying of Thirst
She built rockets, made a desk out of whatever the apartment could spare, and applied to Y Combinator four times. Now her company's first hardware has worked in orbit - one precise turn toward a future where spacecraft can pull over and refuel.
Matija Milenovic Is Turning the Worst Delivery of His Life Into a 15-Minute Rocket Hop
A 23-hour hand delivery taught the aerospace engineer that the fastest machines on Earth still depend on very slow logistics. Now his second startup is trying to put urgent cargo on a suborbital shortcut.
Payton Case Is Building the Delivery Truck for Orbit
After learning to cool computers with liquid nitrogen and build geostationary satellites at scale, the Dispatch co-founder has picked a wonderfully terrestrial problem in space: getting the cargo home.
Halen Mattison
Halen Mattison is the co-founder and CEO of General Galactic, an El Segundo space-propulsion company building Genesis, a water-fueled engine that aims to combine hydrazine-level thrust with xenon-level efficiency. A former SpaceX engineer who worked on propellant generation for Starship, he left after being told his Mars-fuel vision was too long-term, studied at Stanford, and started the company to build the propulsion and propellant infrastructure he believes will become a railroad to Mars. The company raised roughly $9.9M across pre-seed and seed rounds and first emerged converting CO2 into methane on Earth before sharpening its focus on high-agility spacecraft and water-based propulsion.