They’re Building Satellites on an Assembly Line | Inside Apex

Satellites have always been built one at a time, by hand, for hundreds of millions of dollars each. Apex builds them like products, on a line, in a Los Angeles factory called Factory One. We spent a day inside with co-founder and CEO Ian Cinnamon. He walked us through the assembly floor, the CNC machines, and the buses going out the door. What’s in this one: How a satellite bus becomes a product instead of a custom build What actually happens on the floor at Factory One Why Ian left Palantir and Synapse to start an aerospace company in 2022 Aries, Nova and Comet, and how Apex decides what to build next Why defense primes that could build this themselves buy it instead The first Aries launch on SpaceX Transporter-10 What Apex looks for when it hires Apex: https://www.apexspace.com “Inside” is Goanna Capital’s documentary series on the teams building the most important frontier technology companies. New episodes on this channel. Goanna Capital is an investment firm companies, managing around $4Bn. To give you a sense of our portfolio, we are shareholders in SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenEvidence, Databricks, Canva, Harvey, Starcloud, Anduril and Stripe. Goanna Capital: https://goannacapital.com/ Jordan Keslow:   / jordankeslow   #Apex #SpaceTech #Satellites #Manufacturing #FrontierTech #Goanna Capital