Billionaire Kam Ghaffarian sets his sights on the stars with a range of space companies

Kam Ghaffarian has helped build the new space economy, with leadership roles at Intuitive Machines, Axiom Space, Quantum Space and X-Energy.

It might sound farfetched if it wasn't for his track record. Ghaffarian has been instrumental in ushering in the new space economy, having co-founded and invested in a cadre of commercial space ventures.

The Iran-born entrepreneur, who emigrated to the U.S. some four and a half decades ago, co-founded a government services company called Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies that became a top contractor for NASA before KBR acquired it in 2018.

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