19. Spire: Launching Crowdfunding Beyond Earth

Peter Platzer was always attracted toward Science and education. He received training at CERN and Max Planck Institute, and dreamt of a day when everyone would be able to have access to space. Attending Singularity University’s inaugural Executive Program in 2009 was the final cue. The high-energy physicist-turned-finance guy finally propelled himself to pursue his true passion of commercial space exploration. With this idea in mind, he graduated from the International Space University’s master’s program, and received internship experience at NASA Ames’ Space Portal. In 2012, along with Joel Spark and Jeroen Cappaert (space engineers), Peter found Nanosatisfi, the first remote-sensing platform intended ...

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