Business
This is the story of a twenty-something physicist who trades a promising academic career for a huge but risky opportunity in the early days of NewSpace, way way back in 2016...Alexander Reissner was already heading up a research team in Austria, and he was gaining prominence in the international research community, when his lightbulb moment came along and pointed him in a radically different direction. Enpulsion, his NewSpace startup, designs and mass-produces propulsion systems for small satellites. In the space industry of 2016, this approach, and even this market, was virtually non-existent. Today the smallsat market is exploding, Enpulsion is thriving, and its leader's future is looking brighter than ever. Welcome to the NewSpace economy!