Less than two years ago, the founders of Analytical Space had the electrical innards of their first satellite prototype spread across a table in the Harvard iLab. The room was more accustomed to hosting software programmers than aerospace engineers, which are “like unicorns at Harvard Business School," said Jeff Bussgang, a senior lecturer at HBS and a major investor in Analytical Space via his venture capital firm Flybridge Capital Partners. "Nobody else had their backgrounds.”
Now, Analytical Space has a dozen full-time employees working out of MIT's new "tough tech" accelerator, The Engine, and the company's first shoebox-sized satellite is orbiting the Earth. It was deployed from the International Space Station on Friday morning.
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