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Congratulations to Daniel Roelker, Richard Hedrick, and the newly formed Observable Space team on the merger between OurSky and PlaneWave Instruments. In 2022, Dan and Alex created Oursky to make space observational data more accessible, accurate, and useful to the entire ecosystem from space startups to government & defense, big tech, and academic institutions. Over the past two years, the team has built a developer platform, similar to AWS for compute or Stripe for payments, allowing users to build applications on top of Oursky’s real-time data feeds from its proprietary network of telescopes. Enter PlaneWave, the most advanced manufacturer of telescopes in the world. What began as a partnership - allowing PlaneWave customers to access the Oursky platform and ingest their own imaging data, while expanding Oursky’s network through PlaneWave’s distribution - naturally evolved into the merger of the two companies. The result is Observable Space, bringing together hardware and software solutions under one roof to better serve customers. Last September, Rick gave us a tour of PlaneWave’s headquarters in Adrian, Michigan, where 100% of its telescopes are made. Rick has been building telescopes since 1991, when he convinced his physics professor at El Camino College to start a telescope making class with 10 of his classmates (the class still exists today). Fifteen years later, he founded PlaneWave Instruments, pioneering the telescope manufacturing industry and supplying leading organizations such as NASA and top astronomy institutions. Can’t imagine a better team to go after this market. Onwards! Link to press release: https://lnkd.in/egbB4gV9