Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, February 24th, 2020.

And I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria.

This week is a really exciting, kind of a different episode

because I got to record it on location

in a very, very special place.

But before I tell you about it,

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All right guys, I'm so excited to share this special episode with you this week.

So recently I had the opportunity to travel all the way to Kazakhstan to witness history in action.

I got to watch 34 different satellites being launched into space on the Soyuz rocket from the Baikener Cosmodrome.

Now that took place on Friday, February 7th in the wee hours of the morning, actually the exact time was

242 a.m. local time. It was an early wake-up call at midnight. It was an incredible experience and don't go anywhere after the interview that I'm going to share because you'll get to hear the actual audio from the launch firsthand.

Okay, so before we get to that, I have the opportunity earlier in the day

to sit down with the CEO of OneWeb satellites.

Now, OneWeb satellites is a joint venture between Airbus and OneWeb.

And their specific goal, the reason their company was formed was to design and

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