{"id":47369,"date":"2026-03-16T18:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/investing-in-american-manufacturing-shey-sabripour-talks-cesiumastros-ramp-up\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:40:19","slug":"investing-in-american-manufacturing-shey-sabripour-talks-cesiumastros-ramp-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/investing-in-american-manufacturing-shey-sabripour-talks-cesiumastros-ramp-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Investing in American Manufacturing: Shey Sabripour Talks CesiumAstro\u2019s Ramp-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a young electrical engineer at RCA Corporation, Shey Sabripour was inspired by the company\u2019s legacy of contributing to space missions, and he wanted to make his own mark by establishing a company that builds technology in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Sabripour went on to found<strong> CesiumAstro<\/strong> 10 years ago, which is now at a pivotal moment in its growth journey. He joins On Orbit this week after the company recently raised $270 million and secured $200 million EXIM financing to build out its manufacturing capabilities in Texas under the \u201cMake More in America\u201d initiative.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview, he shares his deep passion for building in America, and how he sees a crucial link between strong commercial competition, resilient supply chains, and defense readiness. Sabripour also talks about how CesiumAstro has methodically grown from providing software defined radios to now, full-scale missions and previews the launch of the company\u2019s first Element satellite, targeted for later this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>This episode is brought to you by CesiumAstro, a leading U.S. designer and manufacturer of mission-critical, AI-enabled, software-defined space and defense systems.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Listen Here:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Investing in American Manufacturing: Shey Sabripour Talks CesiumAstro\u2019s Ramp-Up 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%2F2284695158&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=750&amp;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a young electrical engineer at RCA Corporation, Shey Sabripour was inspired by the company\u2019s legacy of contributing to space missions, and he wanted to make his own mark by establishing a company that builds technology in the United States. Sabripour went on to found CesiumAstro 10 years ago, which is now at a pivotal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47370,"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-47369","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\/47369"}],"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=47369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}