EVA Interviews Rex Ridenoure, CEO of Ecliiptic Enterprises | Out of the Cradle

By EVA, editor, Posted 03/31/09

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"The collective intuition of the original 11 employees, led by 5 co-founders, suggested that there was an unmet need in the space marketplace (rockets AND spacecraft) for integrated, end-to-end onboard video and imaging solutions—not high-end, science-quality content, but simpler stuff like you see on YouTube now. RocketCam™ is now a synonym for this sort of space-based imaging. We wanted to address not only the onboard cameras but also the image handling, data-transport, telemetry and reception aspects of the overall problem. A catch phrase that became popular several years after we formed Ecliptic is “situational awareness.”  "In essence, what we had in mind at the time (though we didn’t call it this) was providing improved situational awareness for various space project stakeholders: the mission funders/sponsors, the rocket and spacecraft builders, the owners and operators of the rockets and satellites, the space insurance community, the interested public, media outlets, etc."