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Emiliano Kargieman

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Satellogic Inc.

Search every verified Emiliano Kargieman interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Emiliano Kargieman, founder and CEO of Satellogic, appeared in several interviews and testified before the Argentine Senate's General Legislation Committee in August 2026. In media appearances, he discussed Satellogic's growth, including its "Merlin" satellite constellation, which he said would allow daily remapping of the entire planet at up to one-meter resolution. He also commented on the company's decision to fully divest from Chinese clients and investors, stating there was currently "zero" link with China. Kargieman expressed optimism about Argentina's potential in the space sector and his hope for the emergence of 10 to 20 companies of similar size in the country. In his Senate testimony, Kargieman voiced support for creating a legal framework for autonomous entities—companies whose operational decisions are substantially delegated to AI systems—calling it a "historic opportunity" for Argentina. He proposed four priorities for the legislation, including narrowing the definition of autonomy to cases where machines have primary authority to make material decisions without prior human approval, requiring operational charters for such entities, establishing human oversight committees with effective intervention powers, and moving from post-hoc audits to continuous real-time supervision. Kargieman also noted that he had been forced to incorporate his own companies abroad due to Argentina's institutional and corporate structures, while arguing that the country could become a global jurisdiction for registering and governing autonomous entities.

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“I think that the moon is going to be probably the first base occupied or inhabited permanently outside of Earth, and we are going to live it in our generation. I think that after that we are going to see much more work around Earth, in Earth's orbit and in the space between Earth and the Moon, what is called cislunar space. I think that there the economy of the next 150 years is going to develop.”

“I believe Argentina has a super interesting historic opportunity to play in this game. If it's willing to do some experiments from a regulatory standpoint... What setting up autonomous companies of this type allows you to do is break the demographic barrier. A country like Argentina with 40-something million people and maybe 8 million or 10 million people who contribute economically... You could go on to have 500 mil”

“La humanidad no tiene más remedio que salir al espacio. Si vos mirás la situación en la que se encuentra el mundo, nosotros necesitamos por diversas razones, tanto por tratar de darle una buena calidad de vida a los 8,000 millones de personas que somos, como por lograr sostener el sistema, tenemos la necesidad de seguir creciendo a un ritmo de por lo menos el 4% al año por los próximos 150, 200 años. Y si vos mirás e”

“La humanidad necesita sí o sí salir de la Tierra. Los recursos que hay fuera del planeta Tierra son infinitamente más grandes que los recursos que hay en la Tierra.”

“The CSDA contract is the second largest data acquisition contract in the United States. There's the NRO contract called IOC, which is a multi-billion dollar contract, and then there's this CSDA contract, which is roughly 490 million dollars in ceiling. That doesn't mean all of that will go to Satellogic; there are a number of different providers within the contract, and the contract is executed over several years, bu”

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