Phantom Space CEO Jim Cantrell wants to change the way we think about industrializing space
Jim Cantrell, founder and CEO of Tucson-based Phantom Space, has already established himself as a luminary in the aerospace industry, but he wants to cement his legacy by changing the way businesses get into space.
“We’re talking about industrializing space, and to do that, we’ve got to have reliable transportation,” he said. “This will be a legacy I can leave behind as the intellectual father of this concept, and I just want to prove that it will work. I’m just not willing to give up on it, I’m just not.”
Cantrell was previously the first vice president of business development at SpaceX, the space exploration company owned by Elon Musk, and before that he worked at the French Space Agency (CNES) and NASA Jet Propulsion Lab.