Nathan @natabr75

Notes and projects on AI for space.

About

Currently
Engineering Fellow, American Dynamism at a16z
Previously
Engineer, United States Space Force
Working on
Generative AI for space and aerospace
Located
San Francisco

Six months into the fellowship I've sat in a lot of pitches and spent a lot of time with companies, and I haven't built anything of my own. This site is where that changes. Everything here is small and built against real data. I write it up whether it worked or not.

The theme is generative AI applied to space and aerospace. If you're working on that, I'd like to hear from you.

Background

  1. Engineering Fellow
    2026 -
  2. Engineer
    United States Space Force
    20XX - 2026
  3. [Earlier role]
    [Org]
    20XX
  4. [Degree]
    [School]
    20XX

Projects

Date Project Status
Launch license reader Search and summarize FAA launch licenses and FCC spectrum filings. What has actually been approved, and when. planned
Change detection with a vision model Give a vision model before-and-after Sentinel-2 tiles and ask what changed. Where it's right, and how it fails. planned
Ask the catalog Plain-English questions over the public satellite catalog (Celestrak TLEs), answered by a model that has to show its orbital math. planned

Writing

No. Date Title
02 What I'm going to build A numbered list of small projects at the intersection of generative AI and space, posted so I can be held to it.
01 Colophon How this site is built and why it looks the way it does.

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