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SUMMARY:eSpace Webinar – Mikhail Kokorich\, founder of Destinus SA
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DESCRIPTION:Mikhail Kokorich\nThe whole history of humanity is the story o
 f our struggle with space and time. Mastering new horizons\, moving ever f
 arther\; driven by the desire for a better life or for profit\, out of fea
 r or out of sheer curiosity\, people found ever faster\, easier\, cheaper\
 , and safer ways to conquer the space between here and there. The masterin
 g of new territories is impossible to imagine without transport. The inven
 tion and proliferation of new means of moving people and goods — such as
  railways\, aviation\, containers — has created the modern economy that 
 we know. The aviation industry didn’t experience larger disruption since
  the proliferation of jet turbines in the 50th. But now we see an explosio
 n of new concepts for automobility that also try to open a new angle – s
 ustainability. The aviation industry is one of the primary pollutants on E
 arth. The delivery of cargo or passengers creates 10-100x times more CO2 e
 missions than terrestrial or marine transport. Almost all of the new compa
 nies aim to revolutionize only local transport. But without a revolution o
 n long-haul aero transportation\, we will not be able to change the face o
 f this big industry.\n\nMikhail Kokorich (born 1976\, in Siberia) is a wel
 l-known space entrepreneur. He has founded several successful space techno
 logy companies. Dauria Aerospace was Russia’s first private aerospace co
 mpany. Canadian-based Helios Wire was a satellite IoT operator and sold to
  EchoStar in 2019. Astro Digital is a prominent US microsatellite company\
 , one of the key DARPA suppliers. In 2017 Mikhail founded Momentus Inc.\, 
 a provider of space infrastructure services. Momentus went public on the N
 ASDAQ in August 2021.\nIn 2021 he moved with his family to Switzerland. He
  started a new company\, Destinus\, to develop a hyperplane\, a hybrid of 
 a rocket and an airplane that can deliver express cargo anywhere in the wo
 rld in 1-2 hours.\n 
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/67076172029
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