Accion Systems and its 31-year-old chief executive have a product that can change the economics of near-Earth orbit, and it’s the size of a deck of cards.
There’s a sweet spot about 22,000 miles above the planet. Only in this narrow band of space can an object achieve geosynchronous orbit, moving at the same speed as Earth’s rotation and staying fixed above one point on the surface. It’s beachfront real estate in the void.