{"id":47121,"date":"2026-04-20T22:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/inside-satenlights-spiral-staircase-of-lasers-interview-with-startup-space-winner-matteo-vismara\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:34:22","slug":"inside-satenlights-spiral-staircase-of-lasers-interview-with-startup-space-winner-matteo-vismara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/inside-satenlights-spiral-staircase-of-lasers-interview-with-startup-space-winner-matteo-vismara\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside SatEnlight\u2019s Spiral Staircase of Lasers: Interview with Startup Space Winner Matteo Vismara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based in Milan, Italy, <b>SatEnlight<\/b> is an optical communications technology company with a terminal that stacks multiple beams on top of each other, arranged in what looks like a multi-layered spiral staircase of lasers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SatEnlight CEO and co-founder Matteo Vismara and his co-founder developed the product based on years of scientific research in Physics and work based at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vismara joins On-Orbit this week in a conversation with <i>Via Satellite<\/i> Executive Editor Jeffrey Hill after he won SATShow\u2019s 10th Annual Startup Space entrepreneur pitch contest. In this interview, he explains why he chose the risk of starting a private company over the safety of almost guaranteed university tenure and the details of a slide deck tip he received during pitch coaching that helped him win Startup Space.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vismara also talks about how Italy is building off of its deep legacy in cutting-edge space science and why he believes the SatEnlight terminal could actually help create new standards for optical transmissions in space.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_403701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-403701\" style=\"width: 609px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-403701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SatEnlight_FirstSlide-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"609\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SatEnlight_FirstSlide-1.jpg 1113w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SatEnlight_FirstSlide-1-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SatEnlight_FirstSlide-1-800x454.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SatEnlight_FirstSlide-1-640x363.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-403701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first slide from SatEnlight\u2019s Startup Space presentation, which is referenced in the podcast episode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<h3>Listen Here:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside SatEnlight\u2019s Spiral Staircase of Lasers: Interview with Startup Space Winner Matteo Vismara 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%2F2306075972&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=750&amp;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based in Milan, Italy, SatEnlight is an optical communications technology company with a terminal that stacks multiple beams on top of each other, arranged in what looks like a multi-layered spiral staircase of lasers.&nbsp; SatEnlight CEO and co-founder Matteo Vismara and his co-founder developed the product based on years of scientific research in Physics and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47122,"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-47121","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\/47121"}],"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=47121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}