From Kentucky to Space
Gentry Barnett (left) and Twyman Clements (right) of Space Tango with CubeLabs
Media Credit: Space Tango
In-orbit commercial services provider and Kentucky-based startup Space Tango, Inc. was recently featured in the Kentucky Engineering Journal of the University of Kentucky College of Engineering. Space Tango cofounder and CEO Twyman Clements and biomedical engineer Gentry Barnett are both alumni of the University of Kentucky.
Space Tango is one of several innovative commercial services providers supporting the growing demand for space-based research and serving as pathfinders for economic development in low Earth orbit(Abbreviation: LEO) The orbit around the Earth that extends up to an altitude of 2,000 km (1,200 miles) from Earth’s surface. The International Space Station’s orbit is in LEO, at an altitude of approximately 250 miles..
“When people hear about using the space station, it’s all about going to Mars, which is certainly great, and I could talk about that forever. But our focus is using the ISSInternational Space Station as a medium to create new products, better products—whether they be drugs or semiconductors or other materials. This is not about us going to Mars; this is about us making life better on Earth.”
—Twyman Clements, Space Tango cofounder and CEO