Laconia Daily sun has a story about a Gilford company called Rogue that is developing LIDAR-based systems for orbiting satellites to identify objects in space . The full story is here.
It’s part of the company’s effort to develop autonomous orbiting robots that I have written about previously. It’s a surprising sort of R&D firm to be located in a town next to Lake Winnipesaukee that’s better known for tourism and rich second homes,:
“People ask why aren’t we in Colorado or Texas or Florida or California, where the space industry is more predominant,” he said in a Friday interview from California, where he was awaiting Saturday’s launch of Barry-1 from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The answer to that question is simple, said Grimmet: “I don’t have to be there.” The Internet makes it possible for about half the 30-person company to be elsewhere without affecting productivity.
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