{"id":46960,"date":"2026-05-19T17:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/breaking-the-power-constraint-in-space-with-star-catchers-andrew-rush\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:45:31","slug":"breaking-the-power-constraint-in-space-with-star-catchers-andrew-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/breaking-the-power-constraint-in-space-with-star-catchers-andrew-rush\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Power Constraint in Space With Star Catcher\u2019s Andrew Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SWAP \u2014 size, weight, and power \u2014 is a defining feature of space engineering constraints. As new technologies and designs have opened up options for size and weight, power is still a limiting constraint.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Longtime space executive Andrew Rush turned his attention to the issue of power in space with <strong>Star Catcher<\/strong>, the company he co-founded in 2024. Star Catcher has the bold ambition to break the constraints of power in space by deploying satellites that can function as a power grid in orbit and beam power to client satellites, on demand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rush joined the On Orbit podcast just ahead of Star Catcher\u2019s Series A funding announcement. As former CEO of Made in Space and Redwire\u2019s first COO, Rush has had a front row seat to the evolution of commercial space, and considers himself a student of the sector. That experience and hearing from industry colleagues informed the design and business model of Star Catcher.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Rush talks about why he sees power as a fundamental infrastructure need in space, similar to transportation and telecommunications, and how plans for the generation of infrastructure compares to the changes he\u2019s seen so far.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Listen here:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Breaking the Power Constraint in Space With Star Catcher\u2019s Andrew Rush by On Orbit Podcast by Via Satellite\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2323799075&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=750&amp;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWAP \u2014 size, weight, and power \u2014 is a defining feature of space engineering constraints. As new technologies and designs have opened up options for size and weight, power is still a limiting constraint.&nbsp; Longtime space executive Andrew Rush turned his attention to the issue of power in space with Star Catcher, the company he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}