What keeps space entrepreneurs up at night

An Ariane 5 lifts off from its launchpad in Kourou, at the European Space Center in French Guiana, on June 20, 2019. (Credit: JODY AMIET—AFP/Getty Images)

Good morning.

I had the opportunity to speak with Chandra Donelson, the chief data and AI officer of the United States Space Force, and Arvind Srinivasan, the CTO of Maxar, the high-res satellite imagery company, yesterday at Brainstorm AI. Both have responsibility for systems that maintain U.S. national security from space.