Even Rodgers spent a decade as an Air Force weapons officer, watching China and Russia build space weapons while the United States had “nothing in its arsenal.” So he left the army to solve the problem himself.
Currently as co-founder and CEO of the company True Anomalyis building the first pure-play space defense company, developing autonomous spacecraft, sensors and software designed specifically for military operations in orbit. With $418 million raised and a growing team, Rogers is racing to realize the capabilities the Space Force desperately needs.
Today on TechCrunch’s Equity Podcast, Rebecca Bellan sat down with Rogers to discuss the emerging space defense business and why the U.S. is catching up.
Listen to the full episode to learn about:
- How the space industry has moved away from the service domain as threats in space evolve and what other countries are already implementing.
- The biggest bottleneck slowing down the development of space defense.
- How True Anomaly’s ‘Jackal’ spacecraft was designed to evolve from surveillance missions to multi-mission missions.
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