Herve Astier (ILF2019)
The Australian
It’s probably fair to say that the top minds at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are fairly hard to impress. But when you pull a fully-operational, metal-fuelled, satellite propulsion system out of your carry on it gets the job done, Neumann Space chairman Peter Schultz laughs.
The story of how Mr Schultz and company chief executive Herve Astier came to be in that room, pitching to the biggest space organisation on the planet, is one of
It is also the story of how far Adelaide-based company Neumann Space has come, from Dr Paddy Neumann’s invention of the Drive, which was patented in 2015, to the point where the company is now looking towards commercial production and scale up of manufacturing.