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About
Neel Kunjur is co-founder and CTO of K2 Space, where he leads spacecraft engineering for the company's Mega-class satellite buses. He spent six years at SpaceX developing systems for the Dragon spacecraft now flying cargo and crew to the International Space Station, then served as a senior engineer at Kittyhawk, the Larry Page-backed electric aircraft company. He founded K2 with his brother Karan in 2022 around the thesis that the Starship launch economics will favor large, power-dense satellite buses over distributed smallsat constellations.
Previous roles
- Senior Engineer, Kittyhawk
- Spacecraft Engineer, SpaceX (Dragon)
Notable work
- Gravitas 20 kW Mega-class satellite mission
- SpaceX Dragon spacecraft avionics integration
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