
For more than 25 years, Chris Pearson has turned exacting space hardware into growing businesses. At Agile Space Industries, his task is to make the machinery of orbital movement faster to build, easier to test and dependable when it matters.

After three decades making launch systems move faster, the Raptor architect is taking on the part of spaceflight that usually stays put: the satellite itself.
Sidney Nakahodo left the World Bank to fund rocket welders, orbital robots and satellite-data startups. His pitch to skeptics: the most useful thing about space is what it does for the planet you can already see out the window.