Interview hosted by The SmallSat Revolution, Powered by GomSpace, where Frank speaks with Dr. Laila Kazemi, technical chair and founder of Star Forge. She shares her journey from star tracker expert to entrepreneur, exploring optical navigation, dual-use technologies, and her commitment for mentoring future space engineers.
About StarForge
Star Forge provides technical consulting in space optical navigation and attitude estimation, supporting clients developing spacecraft systems that rely on vision-based sensing. We work closely with mission teams to design, simulate, and validate navigation and estimation architectures using multi-sensor optical systems. Our expertise covers algorithm development for relative navigation, feature tracking, and pose estimation. We assist at every phase, from early concept design and technology trades to hardware-in-the-loop testing and flight qualification.
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