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“Expect the unexpected.”
This is what former Disney Channel actress Bridgit Mendler published xpreviously Twitter, on Monday.
The actress, singer and songwriter announced on the social media platform that she is now the CEO of Northwood Space, a space startup that focuses on building ground stations that connect to satellites in space.
He explained it as a “data highway between Earth and space” in his post on X.
“We are designing shared ground infrastructure from first principles to expand access to space,” he continued to explain in his post.
The company was formed in 2023 by Mendler, Griffin Cleverly and Shaurya Luthra and operates out of El Segundo, California, according to Northwood. website.
Cleverly is Mendler’s husband and serves as the company’s chief technology officer. The two got married in 2019. Luthra is the software director.
Skillfully He recently worked as a communications engineer at the MITER Corporation, which is a federally funded research and development center. Before that, he worked as a mechanical engineer at Lockheed Martin.
Lutra He also worked at Lockheed Martin, but as a software and hardware engineer before moving to the American space company. Capella Space where he worked on the company’s Ground Software and Ground Station network. The company works with satellites and synthetic aperture radars.
As a teenager, Mendler starred in Disney Channel’s “Good Luck Charlie,” “Wizards of Waverly Place” and “Lemonade Mouth.” Later, she appeared on the ABC/CMT series “Nashville.”
After his work in Hollywood, he focused on his education by attending the University of Southern California and graduated in 2016. He then went on to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his master’s degree and Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab.
This year he received his J.D. from Harvard Law School. She also served as co-president of the Harvard Space Law Society, according to her LinkedIn.
In an interview with CNBCrevealed that he “fell completely in love with space law” during his time at the Federal Communications Commission’s new Space Office.
“Space is getting easier in many different dimensions, but the actual exercise of sending data to and from space remains difficult. “You have difficulty finding an access point to contact your satellite,” he told the outlet.
CNBC explained that Northwood wants to “build satellite ground stations that are designed with rapid production and deployment flexibility first in mind.”
Luthra explained that they want to deliver these ground stations “in a few days, not months.”
The startup began while vacationing at New Hampshire’s Lake Northwood.
“We applied our SATCOM experience to build antennas from scratch and communicate with NOAA satellites. This laid the foundation on which we have built ever since,” the website states.
“Telegraph networks led to the centralization of stock prices and real-time journalism. Mobile phones freed communication from the limitations of space,” reads the company’s message. “The Internet democratized access to information. “The way our generation can contribute to this story is to truly cover the Earth with connectivity through space and expand our connection to a new frontier.”
His startup has raised up to $6.3 million from investors including Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Also Capital, Long Journey Ventures, Box Group and Humba Ventures.
Mendler’s big news didn’t stop there.
She also revealed that she is the mother of a “sweet 4-year-old boy.”
In a separate post for xHe explained that he began fostering the child in 2021 and then adopted him around Christmas 2022.
“I am very lucky: being a father is the greatest gift and most defining experience there is. That’s my news for now friends.”